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"Boston Slate House is the Hub of the Solar System" 

Oliver Wendhll Holmes 



[Sixth Edition] 



PRINTED UNDER THE UIRECTION 
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The Bulfinch State House 

"Far the most beautiful city in America, as far 
as I have seen, is Boston, and the State House is 
the most beautiful building in the country. At 
Washington, at Albany, at Chicago, and elsewhere, 
you see much grander and more costly structures; 
but this is in perfect taste and proportion: every 
interspace the right size, every moulding right, 
every decoration refined — a sort of Adams' archi- 
tecture of noblest type. . . . The situation is noble, 
and has been made the best of." 

Protn " Life and Correspondence of John Duke Lord Col- 
eridge, Lord Chief Justice of England." Extract from a letter 
to Sir M. E. Grai^ Duff, dated New York, October 26. 1883. 



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INTRODUCTION 

THE State House Guide Book was originally 
written at the request of the late Captain 
John G. B. Adams, Sergeant-at-Arms. The 
first edition was printed by order of the General 
Court in iqoi, with subsequent issues in 1905, iqo7, 
iqi2 and 1914. The present, or sixth, edition is pub- 
lished under authority of chapter 25, Resolves of 
iqi6. If any inaccuracies are discovered, the author 
will be glad to have them pointed out. 
T^e book is arranged in three parts. 
In the first it has been the aim to describe 



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B briefly the inception of the Bulfinch State House and g 

g the principal changes since its erection in 1795. The W 

H second guides the visitor to the places of interest in ^ 

I and about the building. The third part is confined H 

H to the political and military record of those in g 

g whose honor a bust, oil painting or statue has g 

H been placed in the State House. g 

H I am very happy to take this opportunity of g 

I extending my thanks to Mr. Thomas F. Pedrick, H 

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B Sergeant-at-Arms, under whose direction the sixth g 

E edition is published; to the Secretary of the Com- g 

g monwealth and the State Librarian, for their kind- g 

ness in granting access to the archives ; also g 

to the many other friends who have cheer- g 

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especially renewing my gratitude for the personal 

assistance and interest in my work extended by 

Mr. Pedrick, Mr. C. B. Tillinghast, and Mr. Charles 

B. D. Belden. 

ELLEN MUDGE BURRILL. 

Lynn, Mass., May i, lyiy. 



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The hill upon which the State House stands was 
originally called Tra-mount, owing to the " three 
little rising hills on the top of a high mountain on 
the north west side of the town." This "high 
mountain" extended through the centre of the 
peninsula, from the head of Hanover Street south- 
westerly to the water beyond the State House. It 
retained the name of Tra-mount until used as a 
look-out where the colonists "kept watch to foresee 
the approach of forrein dangers," when it was called 
Sentry Hill. After the erection of the Beacon, in 
1635, it received the name of Beacon Hill. 
Of these "three little rising hills" the first 
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I Hill, the central peak Sentry or Beacon Hill, the third | 

I peak West or Copley's Hill and later Mt. Vernon, | 

S but for many years the name of Beacon Hill has m 

m included the three peaks. | 

I In accordance with a resolve of the General Court, M 

■ dated Feb. 16, 1795,^ Edward Hutchinson Robbins, | 

H Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas M 

1 Dawes and Charles Bulfinch were appointed agents | 

B on the part of the Commonwealth, with authority g 

M 1 Chapter 66. Resolves of 1 794. January session. g 

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to erect, build and finish a new State House for the 
" accommodation of all the legislative and executive 
branches of government, on a spot of ground in 
Boston, commonly called the Governor's pasture, 
containing about two acres, more or less, adjoin- 
ing the late Governor Hancock's garden and be- 
longing to his heirs, — provided the Town of 
Boston would, at their expense, purchase and cause 
the same to be conveyed in fee simple to the Com- 
monwealth." The sum of ;^8,ooo was allowed for 
the purpose. A lawfully authorized committee of 
the Town, — William Tudor, Charles Jarvis, 
John CofYin Jones, William Eustis, William 
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M Harrison Gray Otis and Perez Morton,— purchased the g I 

B "Governor's pasture" for £4,000, in behalf of the in- g | 

B habitants, and conveyed it to the Commonwealth in Ml 

B consideration of the premises and of five shillings paid to J | 

B the committee by the agents. The deed was dated g | 

H May 2, 1795,^ and the bounds of the pasture were | I 

= described as follows: — "beginning at the Southeasterly @ | 

S corner of the garden of the late Governor Hancock, J i 

B and thence running an Easterly course on Beacon g | 

B Street, about two hundred and forty three feet g i 

B three inches, more or less, to the comer of a street g I 

B or passage way leading up Beacon Hill, thence run- M | 

B ning a Northerly course upon said passage way towards ^ = | 

B the summit of said hill, two hundred and forty nine M | 

H feet, more or less, thence running a westerly course g | 

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I upon another passage way leading round said hill 

I two hundred and thirty five feet and three inches. 

I more or less, until it meets the Northeasterly corner 

i of the said late Governor's garden, thence running 

I on a line with said garden, nearly straight, about 

1 three hundred and seventy one feet, to the first men- 

i tioned hounds, — the above description being in- 

1 tended to comprize the said pasture as it is now fenced 

g in." 

1 Charles Bulfinch was chosen architect. The 

1 corner-stone — on a truck, decorated with ribbons 

g _ was drawn to its place by fifteen white 

1 horses, each with a leader, and was laid 
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I His Excellency Samuel Adams. Governor, assisted | 

I by Most Worshipful Paul Revere, Grand Master. | 

1 Right Worshipful William Scollay, Deputy Grand | 

1 Master, and brethren of the Grand Lodge of Masons. | 

1 The structure was 172 feet front. 65 feet deep, 155 J 

I feet high, including the dome, and cost, as shown g 

1 by resolves from Feb. 16. 1795. to June 22. i7Qq. | 

■ $140,000. This sum included the cost of a house for | 

1 the Messenger to the General Court, which, with | 

1 land, amounted to $5,000, leaving for the State J 

1 House $135,000 (Auditor's Report for 1840). g 

I Thursday, Jan. 11, 1798, the General Court as- p 

1 semblcd for the last time in the old State House, j 

1 State Street, where their sessions had been held for J 

1 fifty years, and at 12 o'clock, noon — having been |: 

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g joined by His Excellency Increase Sumner, Gov- = 

M ernor, the Honorable Council, the Secretary, Treasurer | 

J and architect, Charles Bulfinch, — formed a pro- M 

M cession and marched to the new building. The two J 

g Houses, with the Governor and Council, assembled g 

I in the Senate Chamber in the afternoon, proceeded | 

H to the House of Representatives, and heard prayers | 

H from the Chaplain, after which the Supreme Ex- g 

g ecutive and the Honorable Senate retired to their g 

g several apartments. g 

g Early in the nineteenth century, the State House g 

g lot appears to have been enclosed by a wooden fence g 

on Beacon Street, with brick fences on the g 

east, west and north. Those on the east = 

and north were removed in 1 826 and a wall M 



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g of hammered stone, on a solid trench foundation, with g 

g iron picketed fence, substituted. There was erected g 

g in the east wall an iron gate, with stone posts, and a g 

I flight of stone steps, with iron railings, for a convenient g 

= entrance to the building from Sumner Street (later Mt. g 

= Vernon Street). At the west end of the northerly line, g 

g there was a double and a single iron gate, with stone g 

I gate posts, as entrances to a foot way and carriage H 

g way along the west side of the building and parallel to g 

g the west bounds of the yard, leading to Beacon Street g 

g and terminating at the iron gates and granite posts, g 

S still in position at the corner of Beacon Street and g 

g Hancock Avenue. ^ g 

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H His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor, employed J 

1 Alexander Parris in 1826 as architect to superintend g 

1 the construction of a "new and principal entrance," | 

I and to make certain changes in the front and east g 

■ end. A front wall of granite, surmounted by an iron J 

1 fence, and a central double gate, with single gates g 

I each side, properly set between massive granite posts, g 

g were erected; the front yard was lowered to a small g 

1 degree, and the east and west corners rounded; the g 

1 steep bank at the east end was also slightly gradu- | 

H ated. The stone work was done at the State Prison. ^ g 

B When the work was completed, Governor Lincoln trans- | 

I mitted the account of Mr. Parris to the 

m Legislature, and in his message of Feb. 10, 

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1 "Less elegance of style, or thoroughness of exe- g 

I cution would not have been satisfactory. The prin- g 

1 cipal work is now finished for ages. It is wholly m 

I of stone and of iron, immovably fixed, not liable to g 

1 be defaced, and subject to no future occasion for J 

1 repairs. It is worthy of the character of the State, g 

1 and the importance and grandeur of the objects to g 

g which it is appropriate." g 

g One important alteration was fulfilled in 1833, g 

1 under a Resolve of March iq. ^ After a survey of g 

B the yard had been made, the inclination of the "prin- g 

H cipal approach" was reduced, according to a diagram g 

B 1 Chapters 30, Resolves of 1825; q4 of 1826; 60 and 87 of g 

g 1827; Committee Report to House of Representatives. June 11. g 

g 2 Chapter 52. Resolves of 1827. , g 

M ^ Chapter 58. Resolves of 1833. g 

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= reported by Stephen P. Fuller, surveyor, in con- g 

M currence of Solomon Willard, architect. The banks g 

m and slopes which, "for over a third of a century had M 

M obstructed the view of the building," were removed, M 

M "affording a better exhibition of the architectural g 

M proportions of the State House." The surveyor g 

g of the Entrance-way found that the elevation of g 

g the walk of the Colonnade, above the sidewalk in g 

g Beacon Street, was nearly 31 feet, "making the g 

M inclination in the whole way, of one inch and two g 

M thirds of an inch, in one foot." By the plan adopted, g 

the inclination was reduced to half an inch g 

in the foot. The upper parts of the grass g 

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g grass swards rclaid ; the number of steps were increased ; |^ 

^ the old freestone steps and flags repaired and relaid, and g 

g iron railing procured for the front steps. The new 1 

g plinth of the piazza was made of marble slabs, which g 

g for years had been stored in the cellar. ^ 1 

g The first addition to the Bulfinch State House 1 

S was a one story "Fire Proof Edifice" erected on 1 

p the northern front, under a resolve of March 10, 1 

g 1 83 1. 2 The architect was Isaiah Rogers; the con- g 

g tractors James Hunt, Housewright, and Noah Porter, g 

M Mason; the superintendent of construction, Charles 1 

a Wells. This edifice was 94 feet long, by 25 feet high, g 

g resting on a hammered stone foundation; the out- g 

M 1 State Archives, House files 1833, No. 12.851; Minutes g 

= made by Benjamin Russell. Chairman of the Committee on Public g 

m Buildings. g 

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I side walls were of face bricks; the arches had key 

I stones, similar to the south front; the piers had 

I belts and four rosettes of freestone; the caps and 

1 sills of the six windows were freestone; the roof 

I was covered with copper, ornamented by a balus- 

I trade of wood, like the one over the portico on the 

I south front ; the four rooms for the safe-keeping of the 

I records and papers of the Commonwealth were vaulted 

I with bricks; the Hoor was likewise vaulted and cov- 

I ered with flagging stone. The work was completed 

1 in November, 1831, at an expense of $6,qiq.33- ' 

■ For the better accommodation of the 

I State Library and other departments, a 

I resolve was passed, May 20, 1852,2 pro 



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viding for the appointment of a committee of three "to | 

I procure plans and estimates for a fire-proof building to | 

I be erected in the rear of the State House." It was | 

I voted, on April 27, 1853, ^ that a fire-proof building | 

I should be erected on the north side, to be connected | 

i with the main edifice, and the sum of $65,000 was | 

I appropriated. The Governor, with the advice of the | 

1 Council, appointed three commissioners to superintend | 

I the erection of the structure. — Charles H. Warren. | 

I President of the Senate. John T. Heard and Samuel | 

I K. Hutchinson, — a majority entering upon their | 

I duties June 2, 1853. The following month Mr. Heard | 

B 1 State Archives- Papers filed with the Resolve; Bond of m 

^ Mnv ,0 ?8Vi and specifications; also plan No. 2.70 (s'Rned ^ 

I ^y'^he contrlctor^) and No. ai8o; Maps and Plans m Volumes | 

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declined the appointment and Adam W. Thaxter, 
Jr., was chosen to fill the vacancy. The report of 
Jan. 26, 1855, is signed by these three gentlemen, 
but the next report, submitted Feb. 20, 1855, bears 
the signatures of Joseph R. Richards, S. K. Hutchin- 
son and George M. Thacher as commissioners. Grid- 
ley J. F. Bryant was the architect. Appropriations 
were made from time to time, until, when completed, 
the addition cost $243,203.86. In conse- 
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necessary excavating at the southeast corner, a few M 

copper coins and two pieces of sheet lead were found g 

on August 7, 1855. This brought out the further inter- * J 

esting fact that a rough granite stone, still in its place, M 

was the corner-stone and that the deposits of 1795 had g 

only been slightly protected. These original deposits, g 

with new ones, were placed in a metal box, and in g 

the presence of His Excellency Henry J. Gardner, g 

Governor, on Aug. 11, 1855, were inserted by Most S 

Worshipful Winslow Lewis, M.D., Grand Master, and g 

other members of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, J 

in the same southeast corner, under a newly ham- g 

mered granite ashlar, which rested upon a block g 

of granite, laid upon a new and firm foundation. m 

Under a resolve of May 23, 1866, ^ a commission g 

consisting of John H. Clifford, ex-Governor, Joseph | 

A. Pond, President of the Senate, and James M. g 

Stone, Speaker of the House of Representatives, g 

1 Chapter 87. Resolves of i86b. g 

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I was appointed to "consider the whole subject of | 

I remodelling the State House." Their report, con- | 

I taining three plans, drawn by Mr. Bryant and | 

I Alexander R. Esty, was referred to the committee on | 

I State House of 1867. and it was decided, June 1. ^ | 

1 that the Legislature should have additional committee | 

I rooms, that certain alterations and improvements | 

I I should be made in the building, as well as a general | 

\ 1 system of repairs, ventilation, steam heat 

\ 1 and increased cellar accommodations. 

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commissioners, William Washburn &^ Son were the | j 

■ architects, and the final cost was $270,256.q6. g | 

I Commonwealth Building, No. 1 1 Mt. Vernon Street, | | 

i formerly the Way estate, was procured under an act | | 

I approved May 26, 1 882, ^ remodelled and used by State | \ 

I departments until the winter of iqoo, when it was | 

I razed, together with houses Nos. 1-6 Mt. Vernon | 

I Street, that the land might be included in the park. ^ g 

1 On May 17, 1888,^ the Governoi* and Council J 

\ I were authorized to acquire the land bounded by | 

I I Derne, Temple, Mt. Vernon and Hancock Streets, | 

II and a parcel of land east of Temple Street, between | 
I 1 Mt. Vernon and Derne; also to discontinue Temple J 
1 1 Street between Mt. Vernon and Derne Streets. By | 
\ 1 this act $500,000 was appropriated, and May 3, | 
I 1 i88g, ^ $130,000 additional was allowed. An act g 

1 I 1 Chapter 84. Resolves of 1867. J Chapter 340. Acts of 1888. | 

I i ^ Chapter 2b2, Acts of 1882. ' Chapter 300. Acts of i88g. g 

I m 3 Chapter 382. Acts of 1 000. g 

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I of June 1 6, 1892, ^ enabled the commissioners to 1 

M take land bounded by Derne and Bowdoin Streets, 1 

M Beacon Hill Place and the State House. June q, 1893, 2 1 

J provision was made for taking Beacon Hill Place; H 

J June 2Q, i8g4,^ for taking the land bounded by Bowdoin, 1 

( Beacon, Mt. Vernon Streets and land then owned 1 

= by the Commonwealth; also on June iq, igoi,^ m 

g for procuring the estates Nos. 8- 14 Mt. Vernon 1 

m Street. M 

g The Governor and Council were allowed $5,000 1 

I on May 25, 1888, ^ to prepare a general plan for the 1 

g better accommodation of the State government, S 

and March iq, i88q, "^ $2,500 was ap- M 

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I the State House was reported, becoming a law June 4, J 

I i88q. ' To meet the expenses incurred under this act, M 

1 a loan, not exceeding $2,500,000, was authorized, and M 

I work was begun under the direction of John D. Long, g 

i William Endicott, Jr., and Benjamin D. Whitcomb, H 

E State House Construction Commissioners. Upon the M 

i death of Mr. Whitcomb, in 1 8q4, Charles Everett Clark S 

I was appointed a member of the commission, and H 

1 upon the resignation of Mr. Long, Mr. Endicott g 

I became chairman, with George W. Johnson as the g 

1 third, member. ^ The architects were Charles Brigham g 

g 1 Chapter 404. Acts of 1 8c)2. = Chapter qi. Resolves of 1888. g 

M * Chapter 450. Acts of 1893. " Chapter 38, Resolves of i88q. M 

1 3 Chapter 532. Acts of i8t)4. ' Chapter 394. Acts of i88q. g 

1 * Chapter 525, Acts of U)o I. = 

= ^ Mr. Clark died in iSqq. Mr. Endicott and Mr. Johnson ^ 

^ completed the building. g 

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and John C. Spofford, but after March, iSgz, Mr. ^ I 

Brigham had entire charge. g | 

The corner-stone of this new building was laid M | 

at the northeast corner Dec. 21, i88q, by Governor g | 

Oliver Ames, assisted by John D. Long, chairman M I 

of the commission, and the Grand Lodge of Masons, | | 

Most Worshipful Henry Endicott, Grand Master, | f 

Right Worshipful Samuel Wells, Deputy Grand g | 

Master. Departments began to occupy the new g | 

offices in the fall of 1894. g | 

The Governor, with the advice and consent of g | 

the Council, was authorized on March 14, 1895, ^ to J f 
appoint a commission for the preservation 
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H building, and report the result, with their recommen- 

= dations, to the General Court. Charles A. Cummings, 

M David H. Andrews and E. Noyes Whitcomb, being 

m chosen, reported April 13, 18Q5. On June q, i8q6, ^ 

g His Honor Roger Wolcott, acting Governor, George P. 

M Lawrence, President of the Senate, and George v. L. 

M Meyer, Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

M were appointed a committee to arrange for plans for 

M preserving the Bulfinch State House substantially in 

M accordance with the report of the above commis- 

m sion. The committee selected Arthur G. Everett 

g as architect, with Robert D. Andrews as his associate 

m and Charles A. Cummings consulting architect. 

M ^ Chapter 31. Resolves of i8qy. » Chapter 531, Acts of i8t)6. 

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H The State House Construction Commission had 
m charge of the work, and $375,000 was appropriated 
M to meet the expenses. 

1 By an act approved June 5, i8q7, ^ His Excel- 

m lency Roger Wolcott, Governor, President George 
I P. Lawrence and Speaker John L. Bates were ap- 
H pointed a committee to consider and decide upon 
I plans for furnishing the Bulfinch part. Mr. Everett 
submitted drawings, specifications and de- 
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I building in accordance with the plans and under the 

I superintendence of the architect. 

I Notwithstanding the additional space made avail- 

I able by the erection of the Extension, it was im- 

I possible to provide for all the departments within 

I the building. This situation led to the introduction 

j of bills in the Legislature from time to time, cover- 

I ing various phases of the general proposition. A 

I survey of the property owned by the State, and 

I adjacent property, was made under a resolve ap- 

I proved Feb. 23, i8qq. ^ Eight years later, the com- 

I mittee on State House made an exhaustive study 

I of the problem of additional accommodations, and 

I during the summer of iqo/, authorized by an act 

I of June 21,^ a special commission continued the 

I investigation, making a report in 1Q08 (Senate Docu- 

I ment No. 73). While the latter commission rec- 

i 1 Chapter 470, Acts of iSq/. > Chapter 545, Acts of 1907. 

^ 2 Chapter 5. Resolves of i8c)C). 

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B ommended as a temporary relief that the buildings | 

B owned by the State on Mt. Vernon Street be re- g 

M modelled for office purposes, both approved the g 

S plan of an extension by means of wings as the best g 

M ultimate solution, but no definite action was taken H 

H until 1 912 when the State House Commission, — g 

g Thomas F. Pedrick, Sergeant-at-Arms, Albert P. g 

H Langtry, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and g 

B Elmer A. Stevens, Treasurer and Receiver 

m General, — were directed by a resolve of 

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I of constructing a building on the southerly side of g 

I Mt. Vernon Street immediately west of Hancock g 

I Avenue. At their request, William Chapman sub- g 

I mitted drawings for an office building, together g 

I with his plans for east and west wings, and g 

I plans were also presented by other Boston archi- g 

I tects. After a careful study', the Commission reported g 

I that under the then existing conditions they felt g 

I the problem could best be solved by purchasing g 

I the Robert Treat Paine estate on Mt. Vernon g 

I and Joy Streets, and Mt. Vernon Place, adjoining g 

I the property of the Commonwealth, and erecting M 

I a building for the use of departments (House Doc- g 

I ument No. 2335). This report brought forward g 

I anew the question of enlarging the State House g 

I itself and a resolve, approved June 13, iqi2, ^ au- g 

I thorized the Commission to cause to be prepared | 

I plans for alterations in, or additions to, the building. g 

I 1 Chapter 102, Resolves of 1912. 2 Chapter 150, Resolves of 1912. g 

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m They were directed to consult with, and to obtain m 

B the co-operation of, the State Art Commission, and g 

B to report to the General Court of 1913 the plan or | 

M plans approved by the State House Commission, J 

§ with their recommendations. William Chapman, g 

g R. Clipston Sturgis and Robert D. Andrews were | 

I retained as architects on July 31 and a working = 

m agreement was signed August 17, the general plan = 

M of procedure having been approved by the Governor B 

g and Council that day. g 

a One of the important elements at first agreed | 

S upon was that whatever addition was built should J 

be in harmony with the Bulfinch front. g 

The study accepted as the most satisfac- J 

tory to use as a basis showed lateral east g 



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and west wings terminating in pavilions on the north g 

and south axis. The Art Commission endorsed this g 

general scheme of development as well as the State g 

House Commission's suggestion that the lateral por- g 

tion on the west and the complete wing on the g 

east should be first constructed. The State House g 

Commission recommended to the Legislature on g 

Jan. I, iqi3, that this plan be adopted as the g 

final solution for enlarging the State House and g 

that the units named be first constructed. Their g 

report (House Document No. 133) was referred = 

to the committee on State House and Libraries, g 

and the enlargement was made possible by the g 

passage of an "Act to provide for the con- g 

struction of additions to the State House," ap- g 

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B proved by His Excellency Eugene N. Foss, Governor, | 

g June 1 8, 1913. ^ This act established the State House 1 

M Building Commission, and Albert P. Langtry, Joseph | 

B B. Russell and Neil McNeil were appointed Sept, j 

B 17, 1913. They selected as architects Mr. Chap- | 

I man, Mr. Sturgis and Mr. Andrews, an agreement i 

g being signed Oct. 11, 1913. The appropriation was | 

g $qoo,ooo. The first sod was turned by Thomas F. 1 

I Pedrick, Sergeant-at-Arms, on May 26, 1Q14. The | 

g corner-stone was laid at the northeasterly corner | 

m of the east wing, at noon, Aug. 6, 1914, by His Ex- | 

J cellency David I. Walsh, Governor, and His Honor | 

B Edward P. Barry, Lieutenant Governor, 

g in the presence of the Executive Council, 

= officers and members of the General Court, 



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the Building Commission, Department officials and m 

many other guests. g 

The forward projection of the west wing was g 

authorized on May 13, 1915,^ together with the pur- g 

chase or taking in fee simple of the following prop- g 

erties; — Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Hancock Avenue; Nos. g 

I, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Mt. Vernon Place; No. 16 Mt. Ver- m 

non Street and the easterly portion of the lot corner g 

of Mt. Vernon and Joy Streets. These takings were g 

made by the Governor and Council August 18, 1915. g 

The appropriation was $600,000, and an act of May g 

9, 1916,^ increiased it by $65,000. Another Act of g 

1 Chapter 830, Acts of 1913. g 

' Chapter 256. General Acts of 1915. • g 

3 Chapter 18 1, General Acts of iqi6. g 

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M • May 24, iqi6/ allowed $700,000 for taking the prop- M 

M erty Nos. 28, iq, 30 and 3 i Beacon Street, and Nos. J 

g 5 and G Hancock Avenue. These takings were made g 

M October 11, iqiG. The houses Nos. zq and 30 Beacon g 

I Street were on the site of Governor John Hancock's g 

mansion, and it is most appropriate that J 

this historic spot, adjoining the "Gov- g 

ernor's pasture" on which the Bulfinch g 



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1 State House stands, should come into the possession ^ 

g of the Commonwealth. g 

S The additions are constructed substantially in g 

M accordance with the general plan of east and west g 

g wings submitted by the State House Commission. g 

g The foundations are of granite, and the exterior walls g 

g of Vermont marble. The Bulfinch front is painted g 

m white, to harmonize with the wings in color. Mr. g 

g Langtry and Mr. Russell resigned from the Building g 

g Commission Jan. 20 and 21, iqi5, respectively, and g 

g the vacancies were filled by the appointment of John g 

g A. Keliher and J. Edward Fuller, who qualified Feb. 4, g 

g 1^15. and with Mr. McNeil, carried on the work g 

g until the passage of Chapter 17, General Acts of g 

B iqiG, approved March 2, iqib. Under this act, the g 

g powers and duties pertaining to that commission g 

B were transferred to and vested in the State House g 

M Commission, Mr. Pedrick, Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. g 

g Langtry, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and Charles g 

M L. Burrill, Treasurer and Receiver General. g 

^ 1 Chapter 250, General Acts of U)i6. g 

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The expense incurred for constructing and fur- 
nishing the State House extension was $4,078,437.85; 
for the preservation and furnishing of the Bulfinch 
front, $335,468.83. The total amount expended for 
the State House extension, restoration of the Bul- 
finch front, furnishings, land occupied by 
the extension and park, east side, estates 
Nos. 8, 10, 12 and 14 Mt. Vernon Street, 



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I west side, together with damages on account of limit- M 

m ing the height of buildings, to Jan. i, iqi4, was g 

B $7. 1 73,^^3 •34- To this sum should be added the g 

J appropriations of 1913, i q i 5 and i q 1 6 for the two M 

M wings and the property recently taken on the west, J 

= for park purposes, amounting to $2,265,000. ^ | 

M The original lot, or "Governor Hancock's pas- | 

m ture,'" contained 1.7 acres; the present holdings of M 

M the Commonwealth, including the takings of iqi6, M 

M cover 6.6 acres. p 

M The purchase of the lots on Hancock Avenue M 

M recalls Chapter 20, Resolves of 1824, approved June B 

M II, 1824, which authorized negotiations for an ex- B 

B change of land with the proprietors of lands adjoining M 

M the State House yard, on the westerly side, and to M 

M arrange a plan with them that their buildings should M 

m be so erected as not to injure the beauty or value M 

S of the public lands; also for executing sufficient ^ 

g deeds to carry out the purposes of the resolve. It | 

g . 1 The taking.s under Chapter 256. General Acts of 1 01 5 to M 

^ Dec. I. ic)i5. amounted to $365,777.26 (Auditor's Report 1915. M 

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was at this time that Hancock Avenue ^ was laid 
out on the Commonwealth's lands for the accommo- 
dation of these proprietors, and under such 
restrictions as would preserve the beauty of 
the public lands and secure the interest of 



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The dimensions of the State House follow: 



Ft. 

155 
65 
172 
106 
53 
35 



Height of Bulfinch front from base course to pinnacle. 
Depth of Bulfinch front, ..... 

Width of Bulfinch front 

Base course of Bulfinch front above city base. 
Diameter of dome, ...... 

Height of dome, ...... 

Height of cupola, ....... ^4 

Diameter of cupola balcony, . . . . .18 

Length of extension, . . . . ... 397 

Width of extension in rear, . . . -173 

Height of extension in rear (sidewalk to apex). . .107 

Widest part of extension. . . . . . .212 



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Dimensions of east and west wings : — 



Ft. 


In. 


. 85 


10 


qi 


3 


55 


4 


. 168 




141 


2 



Laterally from Bulfinch front. 

Length of forward projection from lateral unit . 

Width of forward projection. 

Full length, ...... 

Width of north end, ..... 

The height conforms with the Bulfinch front. 

1 In 1827, called State House Avenue; named Hancock 
Avenue by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, June 21, 1828 
(City Records 1828. p. 27). 

a Commonwealth-Cornelius Coolidge et al., June 18. 1825 
(Suffolk Deeds, Lib. 107. fol. 273- Emily G. Perry et al. vs. The 
Commonwealth, 188 Mass., p. 457)- 



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OBJECTS OF INTEREST 

J' 

The Bulfinch State House — The Dome 

The State House, as completed by Charles Bul- 
finch, was a red brick building, with balconies on 
the south and north fronts. Its columns, 
pilasters, cornices and cupola were of 
wood, painted white; its fascias, imposts, 
keystones and lintels a white Greek or 
Italian marble. The beautiful capitals 



The 

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State 
House 



are of the Corinthian order, and the consols bear the 
design of the acanthus leaf. 

The dome was at first made entirely of wood, 
but to secure it from the danger of fire and the effects 
of the weather, it was sheathed in 1802 with copper, 
purchased from Paul Revere &z Son at an expense 
of $4,231.00, and the platform, on which 
the "lanthorn" stood, was covered 
with thick sheet lead.' The dome 



The 
Dome 



= was originally painted lead color, with a golden S 

I pine cone on the "lanthorn." In 1825, the bricks B 

I were painted white, the lead color of the dome , g 

I was retained and the cone on the cupola regilded. M 

m In 1831, the shingles were removed from the pedi- H 

J 1 State Archives, Chapter 145. Resolves of 1801. January, M 

^ session, March ii; Chapter 53, Resolves of 1803, June 22, with ^ 

^ statement of disbursements by the Agents, June 18, 1803. ^ 

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ment cornice and its roof covered with copper. The 
old copper and shingles were also removed from the 
dome, the boarding repaired, sheathed with new 
boards, covered with new copper and painted gray. 
Mr. Charles Wells, superintendent of the repairs, 
reported to Governor Levi Lincoln, December 15, 
1831, that he had apprehended a dilapidated condi- 
tion of the boarding of the dome would be found, 
when stripped of its external covering, 
which would require a substitution of new 
materials, but to his great surprise the 



The 
Dome 



M boarding proved to be nearly sound. The stripping g 

g of the external covering meant the removal of the g 

g Revere copper. Its weight exceeded that of the new M 

g by more than 1,600 pounds. It is interesting to note g 

g that 6,28q pounds of copper at .23 per pound was g 

M bought of Charles Tracy, June 28, 1831, at a cost of g 

M $1,446.47, and he allowed the State for 7,971 pounds g 

g of old copper at .17^ or a total of $1,394.92. The M 

g expense of the repairs was $1,324.50, in addition to g 

H the proceeds of the old copper. ' g 

g The exterior of the building was painted in whole M 

g or in part from time to time, and although the vouchers g 

= for 1855 do not intimate the color, it is probable that g 

M the building was painted yellow, with white trim- g 

g mings, at that period, for the dome had been painted M 

g yellow some years when, on Jan. 3, 1861, Governor M 

g Nathaniel P. Banks, in 'his valedictory address, rec- M 

M ommcnded that it be gilded. The dome was not g 

g » State Archives, Chapter 8, Resolves of 1831. June 15. g 

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1 covered with gold leaf until 1874/ and it was re- J 

I gilded in 1888, i8q8, iqo6 and iqii.^ During the J 

1 preservation of the Bulfinch front, steel construe- = 

1 tion was substituted for the wood beams and braces m 

i in the dome. The present cupola, a reproduction J 

1 of the original, was built in 1897, replacing the one p 

1 that was erected in 1859. The dome is illuminated g 

1 at night by 498 electric lights. ^ It is accessible to M 

1 the public whenever the building is open, except g 

J during sessions of the Senate. p 

I Shaw — Hancock — Webster — Mann J 

1 A memorial to Col. Robert Gould Shaw ^ and the ^ 

= Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, by Augustus g 

m St. Gaudens, which was dedicated May 31, 

B i8q7, stands on the Common, facing the 

1 State House. The Fifty-fourth was the first 



Shaw M 



colored regiment recruited in Massachusetts. Colonel 

Shaw was killed in the assault upon Fort Wagner, 

S. C, July 18, 1863. The memorial was paid for by 

voluntary subscriptions. 

1 Chapter 76, Resolves of 1874. 

^- Twenty-three carat gold is used. 

' It was first illuminated on Tuesday, Sept. 27. iSoR. at 7 pm. 

* See Appendix. 



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INSCRIPTION ON THE FRONT OF THE 
SHAW MONUMENT 

ROBERT GOULD SHAW 

COLONEL OF THE FIFTY FOURTH REGIMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS 

INFANTRY BORN IN BOSTON OCTOBER X MDCCCXXXVII 

KILLED WHILE LEADING THE ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER 

SOUTH CAROLINA JULY XVIII MDCCCLXIII 

RIGHT IN THE VAN ON THE RED RAMPART'S SLIPPERY SWELL 
WITH HEART THAT BEAT A CHARGE HE FELL 

FOEWARD AS FITS A MAN 
BUT THE HIGH SOUL BURNS ON TO LIGHT MEN'S FEET 
WHERE DEATH FOR NOBLE ENDS MAKES DYING SWEET. * 

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 

The stone work is Knoxville pink marble, set 
upon a base of Milford pink granite. 

The quotation "Omnia reliquit scrvare rempub- 
licam, " on the field of the bronze tablet, is the 
motto of the Society of the Cincinnati, 



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INSCRIPTION ON THE REAR OF THE 
SHAW MONUMENT 

TO THE FIFTY FOURTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 

REGIMENT INFANTRY 

THE WHITE OFFICERS 

TAKING LIFE AND HONOR IN THEIR HANDS CAST IN THEIR LOT 

WITH MEN OF A DESPISED RACE UNPROVED IN WAR AND 

RISKED DEATH AS INCITERS OF SERVILE INSURRECTION 

IF TAKEN PRISONERS BESIDES ENCOUNTERING ALL THE 

COMMON PERILS OF CAMP MARCH AND BATTLE. 

THE BLACK RANK AND FILE 
VOLUNTEERED WHEN DISASTER CLOUDED THE UNION CAUSE 
SERVED WITHOUT PAY FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS TILL GIVEN 
THAT OF WHITE TROOPS FACED THREATENED ENSLAVE- 
MENT IF CAPTURED WERE BRAVE IN ACTION PATIENT 
UNDER HEAVY AND DANGEROUS LABORS AND CHEERFUL 
AMID HARDSHIPS AND PRIVATIONS. 

TOGETHER 

THEY GAVE TO THE NATION AND THE WORLD UNDYING PROOF 

THAT AMERICANS OF AFRICAN DESCENT POSSESS THE 

PRIDE COURAGE AND DEVOTION OF THE PATRIOT SOLDIER. 

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND SUCH AMERICANS 

ENLISTED UNDER THE UNION FLAG IN 

MDCCCLXIII MDCCCLXV. 

CHARLES W. ELIOT. 



I KNOW NOT MR. COMMANDER WHERE IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY 
TO ANY GIVEN THOUSAND MEN IN ARMS THERE HAS 

BEEN COMMITTED A WORK AT ONCE SO PROUD SO PRECIOUS 
SO FULL OF HOPE AND GLORY AS THE WORK COMMITTED 
TO YOU. 

JOHN A. ANDREW, GOVERNOR. 



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Just west of the building, on Beacon Street, is 
a tablet marking the site of the famous John 
Hancock house. ^ Upon the terraced lawn are 
bronze statues of Daniel Webster, ^ by 
Hiram Powers, and of Horace Mann, ^ 
by Miss Emma Stebbins. 

The statue of Webster was erected 
in 1859, by the Webster Memorial Fund. ^ This 



Hancock 
Webster 
Mann 



was the second statue executed by the sculptor; the 
first was shipped from Leghorn in the autumn of 
1857 but was lost at sea. The pedestal of New 
Hampshire granite was executed from drawings by 
St Greely Curtis, for which a sketch was furnished the 
sculptor. On the day set apart for the unveiling, 
Sept. 17, 1859, Gen. John S. Tyler was Chief Marshal. 
Military escort was performed by the Second Battalion 
of Infantry, First Division, M.V.M., commanded by 
Maj. Charles O. Rogers. The Legislature, escorted 
by the Sergeant-at-Arms, formed in Doric Hall, and 
under escort of the Battalion, marched to Music 
Hall where the exercises were held owing to the un- 
favorable weather. The civic procession followed 
from City Hall. Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop offered 
prayer, Professor Cornelius Conway Felton pre- 
sented the statue on behalf of the Committee of 
One Hundred; His Honor Frederic Walker Lincoln, 
Jr., Mayor of Boston, received the statue for the city, 
and His Excellency Nathaniel P. Banks, Governor, 

1 The Hancock house was erected in 1737; removed in 1S63. 

= See Appendix. 

3 Chapter 80, Resolves of 1859. 

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I g accepted it on behalf of the Commonwealth. The g 

I g eulogy was delivered by Hon. Edward Everett, and g 

I g under an order of the Legislature of Sept. iq, 1859, he g 

I = repeated the oration on the grounds of 

I g the State House, the exercises taking 

I g place on Sept. 27 before "an immense 

f I multitude." 

I g The statue of Mann was dedicated 



Webster 
Mann 



Fountains 



July 4, 1865; the funds were contributed by school 
children and teachers of Massachusetts in i860; the 
pedestal was furnished by the State. 

The two bronze fountains were erected in 1 849 ; ^ 
the base of each is ornamented with the State coat- 
of-arms, and the scallop or conkle shell which for 
hundreds of years has been the badge of pilgrims. 

Major General Joseph Hooker 

A bronze equestrian statue of Maj. Gen. Joseph 
Hooker ^ occupies the centre of the approach to the 
east wing. It was purchased by the Commonwealth 
in i8e)6. ^ General Hooker, ever on the 
alert, is portrayed, sitting on his charger, 
ready to start at a moment's notice, and 



Hooker 



M one fully realizes his intense devotion to the cause for | 

1 which he fought so nobly. The man is by Daniel | 

g Chester French, the horse by Edward C. Potter. The | 

1 pedestal is of granite from Stony Creek, Connecticut. | 

i Upon the front is the coat-of-arms ^ of the Common- | 

g 1 Chapter 5. Resolves of 1850. | 

^ ^ See Appendix. | 

g ^ Chapter 43, Resolves of i8q6. 1 

^ ■■ The coat-of-arms was modelled by Mr. French. 1 

1 21) I 

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= wealth of Massachusetts, surrounded by a wreath g 

g of laurel, while directly above appears the name S 

M "Hooker.** g 

B In iqo3 the Legislature authorized the governor g 

M and council to arrange for the dedication of the B 

M statue. It was unveiled at nine o'clock on the morn- g 

g ing of June 25, 1Q03, in the presence of a large num- H 

M ber of guests. g 

g The statue was presented to the Commonwealth g 

m by His Honor Curtis Guild, Jr., Lieutenant Gov- g 

g ernor; it was unveiled by Master Joseph Hooker g 

g Wood, grand-nephew of General Hooker, and was g 

accepted by His Excellency John L. Bates, g 

Governor. Later in the day there was a g 

parade, including soldiers and sailors of g 



= Hooker 



g the Army and Navy of the United States, together 

M with the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, .veterans 

g of the Mexican, Civil and Spanish American wars, 

B and many others. It was reviewed at the State 

g House by John L. Bates, Governor and Commander- 

g in-Chief, with his staff. 

B The battleships Indiana and Texas, torpedo-boat 

B destroyers Chauncey, Dale, Bainbridge, Barry and 

m Decatur, with the Llartford, were anchored in the 

m harbor in honor of the event. In the evening formal 

B exercises were held in Mechanics Hall, Governor 

B Bates presiding. 

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J Devens — Banks 

J The bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Charles Devens, i 

g is by Olin L. Warner. 2 It was erected in i8q8. 

M The statue of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 1 

g was modelled by Henry H. Kitson. » The figure is 

I bronze covered with gold leaf; the chair, 

g monolith and base are granite. At the dedi- 

B cation, Sept. 16, iqo8, Rev. Paul Sterling 



Devens 
Banks 



offered prayer; Paul Sterling, Jr., a grandson of General 
Banks, unveiled the statue; it was presented by 
Councillor Seward W. Jones and accepted by His 
Excellency Eben S. Draper, Governor. The oration 
was given by Hon. Herbert Parker in the House of 
Representatives. 

The Beacon 

The Beacon was erected under an order of the 
General Court of the Colony, March 4, 1634-35, 
— 'Tt is ordered, that there shalbe forth with a 
beacon sett on the centry hill at Boston, to give 
notice to the country of any danger, & 
that there shalbe a ward of one pson kept 
there from the first of April to the last of 



The 
Beacon 



g Septr., & that upon the discov'y of any danger, the B 

I beacon shalbe fired, an allarum given, as also messen- B 

M gers presently sent by that towne where the danger is ■ 

B discov'ed, to all other townes within their jurisdiccon." B 

g A space on the top of the hill, six rods square, was g 

M ^ See Appendix. B 

^ ' Chapter 81. Resolves of i8q I. M 

^ 3 Chapter 7q, Resolves of 1897. ^ 

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m reserved by the town for the monument, with "pas- M 

M sage from the Common thereto." The Beacon was a g 

= tall pole or mast, and projecting from one side was M 

M an iron crane supporting an iron pot. The mast was M 

g placed on cross-timbers with a stone foundation, was M 

g supported by braces and provided with cross-sticks M 

serving the purpose of a ladder for ascend- M 

ing to the crane. Governor Bernard said B 

the Beacon was rebuilt "without his con- M 



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Beacon 



sent" in 1768. It remained until removed by General 
Gage in 1775, when a "small square fort" was built 
on the hill. Soon after the evacuation of Boston, 
March 17, 1776, the town erected another pole, nearly 
in the centre of the British fort ; this was blown down 
in a storm, Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789. 

A monument, from the design of Charles Bul- 
finch, was erected in lyqo by a number of the in- 
habitants to "commemorate that train of events 
which led to the American Revolution and finally 
secured Liberty and Independence to the United 
States." This was a plain Doric column, about 
60 feet high, built of brick, covered with stucco, | 

with foundation and mouldings of stone. The fol- M 

lowing spring it was surmounted by a "large eagle 1 

of wood, gilt, supporting the American arms." The M 

column was enclosed "by a fence of rails, in front 1 

of which were benches for the accommodation of g 
those who ascend the hill." A wooden effigy of M 
the eagle is now over the President's chair in the 1 
Senate chamber. | 



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g Aug. lo, 1811, the town of Boston sold to Sam- M I 

= uel Spear and John Hancock the land on which the H f 

M monument stood, being 6 rods square originally g I 

g reserved in 1634-35. The hill was dug away and g I 

I the column taken down and destroyed, but the four J | 

g slate tablets in its base were preserved in the State g I 

g House, and are now in the stone reproduc- 

g tion which was erected by the Bunker 

g Hill Monument Association in i8q8. The 



The 
Beacon 



new monument was formally presented to the Com- 
monwealth June 17, iSqq. Its dimensions are exactly 
the same as those of the original, and the eagle is an 
exact copy of the original drawings for the wooden 
eagle upon the Bulfinch monument. ^ 

The inscription upon the bronze tablet in the 
base was prepared by Charles W. Eliot, President of 
Harvard College. 

IN 1634 THE GENERAL COURT CAUSED 

A BEACON 

TO BE PLACED ON THE TOP OF THIS HILL 

IN 1790 A BRICK AND STONE MONUMENT 

DESIGNED BY CHARLES BULFINCH 

REPLACED THE BEACON 

BUT WAS REMOVED IN 1811 

WHEN THE HILL WAS CUT DOWN 

IT IS NOW REPRODUCED IN STONE 
BY THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION 



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TABLET UPON THE EAST SIDE 

TO COMMEMORATE 

THAT TRAIN OP EVENTS 

WHICH LED 

TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

AND FINALLY SECURED 

LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE 

TO THE UNITED STATES 

THIS COLUMN IS ERECTED 

BY THE VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION 

OP THE CITIZENS 

OP BOSTON 

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TABLET UPON THE SOUTH SIDE 

BTAMP ACT PASSED 1765, REPEALED 1766. 

BOARD OP CUSTOMS ESTABLISHED 1767. 

BRITISH TROOPS FIRED ON THE INHABITANTS OP BOSTON 

MARCH 5. 1770. 

TEA ACT PASSED 1773. 

TEA DESTROYED IN BOSTON DECEM: 16. 

PORT OP BOSTON SHUT AND GUARDED JUNE 1. 1774. 

GENERAL CONGRESS AT PHILADELPHIA SEPTI 4, 

PROVINCIAL CONGRESS AT CONCORD OCT! 11. 

BATTLE OP LEXINGTON APRIL 19. 1775. 

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL JUNE 17. 

WASHINGTON TOOK COMMAND OP THE ARMY JULY 2. 

BOSTON EVACUATED MARCH 17: 1776. 

INDEPENDANCE DECLARED BY CONGRESS JULY 4. 1776, 

HANCOCK PRESIDENT. 



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TABLET UPON THE WEST SIDE 

AMEUICANS 

WHILE FROM THIS EMINENCE 

SCENES OP LUXURIANT FERTILITY 

OP FLOURISHING COMMERCE 

& THE ABODES OP SOCIAL HAPPINESS 

MEET YOUR VIEW 

FORGET NOT THOSE 

WHO BY THEIR EXERTIONS 

HAVE SECURED TO YOU 

THESE BLESSINGS. 



TABLET UPON THE NORTH SIDE 

CAPTURE OP HESSIANS AT TRENTON DEC: 26. 1776. 

CAPTURE OP HESSIANS AT BENNINGTON. AUG: 16. 1777. 

CAPTURE OP BRITISH ARMY AT SARATOGA OCT: 17. 

ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE FEB: 6. 1778. 

CONFEDERATION OF UNITED STATES FORMED JULY 9. 

CONSTITUTlbN OP MASSACHUSETTS FORMED 1780. 

BOWDOIN PRESIDENT OP CONVENTION. 

CAPTURE OP BRITISH ARMY AT YORK OCT: 19. 1781. 

PRELIMENARIES OP PEACE NOV: 30. 1782. 

DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE SEPT: 10. 1783. 

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION FORMED SEPT: 17. .1787. 

AND RATIFIED BY THE UNITED STATES 1787. TO. 1790. 

NEW CONGRESS ASSEMBLED AT NEW YORK APRIL. 6. 1789. 

WASHINGTON INAUGURATED PRESIDENT APRIL 30. 

PUBLIC DEBTS FUNDED AUG: 4. 1790. 



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Doric 
Hall 

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ton 

Andrew 



Doric Hall — Washington — Hancock — 

Andrew — Lincoln — War Relics 

Entering the Bulfinch front from Beacon Street, 
the visitor first steps into Doric Hall, whose archi- 
tecture, as its name indicates, is of the Doric order. 
Its columns have twenty flutings, and the style re- 
mains unchanged, thus preserving the 
time-honored proportions as designed by 
Charles Bulfinch. Here are marble stat- 
ues of George Washington, i first Presi- 
dent of the United States, by Sir Francis 
Chantrey (1826), given to the Common- 
wealth Nov. 26, 1827, by the Washing- 
ton Monument Association, and of 
Governor John A. Andrew, 1 by Thomas Ball (1870), 
unveiled Feb. 14, 1871, the gift of private citizens 
as a memorial of the affectionate regard in which 
the people of the Commonwealth held her distin- 
guished son. 

Here also are two brass cannon, consecrating 
the names of Maj. John Buttrick and Capt. Isaac 
Davis, "whose valour and example excited their 
fellow citizens to a successful resistance 
of a superior number of British troops," 
at Concord bridge, April iq, 1775; two 
brass cannon captured in the war of 1-8 1 2 
(they were cast in 1780 by W. Kinman; 



Cannon 



Tablets 



the figure "4" and letters "U. E. I. C," probably 
mean "4th Regiment, United East India Company"); 
a tablet in memory of Charles Bulfinch, architect; a 
tablet "to commemorate the preservation and renewal 
of the Massachusetts State House." 



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TABLETS 

IN MEMORY OF 

CHARLES BULFINCH OF BOSTON 

THE FIRST NEW ENGLAND ARCHITECT 

BORN 1763 DIED 1844 

EDUCATED AT HARVARD COLLEGE 

AND BY FOREIGN TRAVEL 

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OP SELECTMEN 

FROM 1797 TO 1818 

A PERIOD OF GREAT IMPROVEMENTS 

FROM 1818 TO 1830 

THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 

AT WASHINGTON 

AMONG HIS IMPORTANT DESIGNS WERE 

THE FIRST THEATRE IN BOSTON 1793 

THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE 1795 

THE FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BOSTON 1803 

FANEUIL HALL ENLARGED 1805 

UNIVERSITY HALL AT HARVARD COLLEGE 1814 

THE MCLEAN ASYLUM AT SOMERVILLE 

1792 AND 1817 AND THE 

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL 1818 

A GRAVE MODEST JUST AND CHEERFUL MAN 

OF SIMPLE HABITS CLEAR INTELLIGENCE 
HIGH PRINCIPLES AND GENTLE JUDGMENTS 



H TO COMMEMORATE ^ i 

I THE PRESERVATION AND RENEWAL g | 

i OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE g | 

1 DESIGNED BY CHARLES BULFINCH = | 

1 BEGUN IN 1795 J I 

M AND FINISHED IN 1798 g I 

I IN 1896 I I 

1 AFTER THE COMPLETION OF LARGE ADDITIONS g | 

M A THOROUGH RECONSTRUCTION OF THE INTERIOR g | 

g OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDING g | 

M WAS UNDERTAKEN g | 

M TO PRESERVE FROM DECAY g | 

g AND FROM DESTRUCTION BY FIRE g | 

M A NOBLE PUBLIC WORK g | 

M THE INTERIORS OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBER ^ | 

g THE SENATE CHAMBER g | 

M AND THE H.VLL OF REPRESENTATIVES g | 

M WERE KEPT UNCHANGED g | 

M THE RECONSTRUCTION WAS FINISHED g I 

g ' IN 1898 g I 

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H A tablet to George Luther Stearns, ^ a merchant g 

= of Boston, commemorates the part he took in H 

securing the enlistment of colored troops g 

and the other valuable services he ren- g 

dered to the United States and to this M 



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Commonwealth in the war of the rebellion. 



I TABLET 1 

M IN MEMORIAM g 

m GEORGE LUTHER STEARNS g 

g A MERCHANT OF BOSTON g 

M WHO ILLUSTRATED IN HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER = 

g THE NOBILITY AND GENEROSITY OF CITIZENSHIP = 

M GIVING HIS LIFE AND FORTUNE M 

M FOR THE OVERTHROW OP SLAVERY g 

= AND THE PRESERVATION OP FREE INSTITUTIONS. M 

^ TO HIS UNRESTING DEVOTION AND UNFAILING HOPE g 

^ MASSACHUSETTS OWES g 

g THK FIFTY FOURTH AND FIFTY FIFTH REGIMENTS ^ 

M OP COLORED INFANTRY M 

W AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT M 

M TEN THOUSAND TROOPS g 

g AT A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE GREAT WAR. g 

= IN THE DARKEST HOURS OP THE REPUBLIC M 

M HIS FAITH IN THE PEOPLE NEVER WAVERED. g 

J OF HIM WHITTIER WROTE g 

M "no duty COULD OVERTASK HIM g 

M NO NEED HIS WILL OUTRUN g 

g OR EVER OUR LIPS COULD ASK HIM g 

g IIIS HANDS THE WORK HAD DONE." g 

M "a MAN WHO ASKED NOT TO BE GREAT g 

M BUT AS HE SERVED AND SAVED THE STATE." g 

g BORN IN MEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS JANUARY 8, 1809 M 

g DIED APRIL 9, 1867. g 

= * Placed in position in 1903. g 

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I I Washington Tablets 

I I Two memorial tablets of the Washington family 

I g were presented to the Commonwealth on Feb. 22, 1861, 

I g by Hon. Charles Sumner. ^ They are of bluish gray 

I M sandstone, and are exact fac-similes of the originals 

I g which mark the resting places of Lawrence and Robert 

I g Washington, - the last English ancestors 

I g of George Washington, our first Presi- 

f g dent. The original stones are' in the 

I g parish church of Brington, near Althorp, 



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ton 
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in Northamptonshire, England. Right Honorable Earl g 

Spencer, the proprietor of Althorp, sought out the g 

quarry from which, more than two centures ago, those g 

tablets were taken, and caused the fac-similes to be g 

made, which he presented to Mr. Sumner. The g 

largest tablet ^ is in memory of Lawrence Washington. g 

Above the inscription, carved in the stone, are the arms g 

of the Washingtons, with the arms of the Butlers M 

impaled. The other stone * is of Robert Washington g 

and his wife Elizabeth. The inscription is on a g 

small brass plate, set in the stone. On a separate M 

brass beneath the inscription are the arms of the g 

Washingtons without any addition but a crescent, the g 

mark of cadency that denotes the second son. These g 

have the combination of stars and stripes, sometimes g 

supposed to have suggested our national flag. g 

* House Document No. iqq. March, 1861 ; Chapter 77. Resolves g 

of 1861. m 

2 Lawrence was father and Robert uncle of John Washington, g 

the English emigrant to Virginia, who was great-grandfather of m 

George Washington. = 

' Length 5 ft. q in; breadth 2 ft. 6 in. ^ 

* Length 3 ft. 6 in; breadth 2 ft. 6 in. ^ 

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g The tablets were placed upon the marble floor in g 

g Doric Hall, within the railing in front of the Washing- J 

ton statue, ^ and remained there until the M 

reconstruction of the Bulfinch front. The M 

statue formerly stood in an alcove, or M 

"statue-building," a short distance north g 



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of its present position. 



(Inscriptions) 



HERE LIETH THE BODI OF LAVRENCE 

WASHINGTON SONNE & HEIRE OF 
ROBERT WASHINGTON OF SOVLGRAE 
IN THE COUNTIE OF NORTHAMPTON 
ESQtJIER WHO MARRIED MARGARET 
THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM 

BUTLER OP TEES IN THE COUNTIE 

OF SUSSEXE ESQUIER, WHO HAD ISSU 

BY HER 8 SONNS AND 9 DAUGHTERS 

WHICH LAVRENCE DECESSED THE 13 

OP DECEMBER A. DNI 1616. 

THOU THAT BY CHANCE OR CHOYCE 

OP THIS HAST SIGHT 

KNOW LIFE TO DEATH RESIGNES 

AS DA YE TO NIGHT; 

BUT AS THE SUNNS RETORNE 

REVIVES THE DAY 

SO CHRIST SHALL US 

THOUGH TURNDE TO DUST & CLAY. 



HERE LIES INTERRED yK BODIES OF ELIZAB. WASHINGTON 

WIDDOWE WHO CHANGED THIS LIFE FOR IMORTALITIE 

YE 19TII OF MARCH 1622. AS ALSO YE BODY OF ROBERT 

WASHINGTON GENT. HER LATE HUSBAND SECOND 

SONNE OF ROBERT WASHINGTON OP SOLGRAVE IN YE 

COUNTY OF NORTH. ESQK. WHO DEPTED THIS LIFE YE 

10th OP MARCH 1622. AFTER THEY LIVED LOVINGLY TOGETHER 

MANY YKAKK8 IN TI1I8 PAKKISH. 

1 House Document No. iqq. March, i86i ; Chapter 77, Resolves 
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John Hancock 

A bronze memorial to John Hancock, ^ the first 
governor of Massachusetts under the constitution, 
was presented to the State by the Massa- 
chusetts Society, Sons of the Revolution, 
on Oct. iq, iqi5, the anniversary of the 



Hancock 



g surrender at Yorktown. ^ It consists of a bust, — re- | 

S produced by the consent of Congress ^ from the statue | 

I of Hancock in the Senate wing of the Capitol at | 

J Washington, — together with a tablet. The location j 

I chosen is the west wall of Doric Hall, opposite the | 

J Lincoln memorial. | 

I TABLET I 

I JOHN HANCOCK | 

m 1737-1793 I 

J A PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION = 

M PRESIDENT OP THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS 1774 1 

M PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775-77 1 

^ FIRST SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE M 

= FIRST GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH M 

M UNDER THE CONSTITUTION 1780-1785 1 

J AND AGAIN GOVERNOR 1787-1793 1 

M PRESIDENT OF THE CONVENTION = 

= WHICH ADOPTED THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION M 

^ ♦ PRESENTED TO THE COMMONWEALTH M 

M BY THE SOCIETY OF THE SONS OP J 

M THE REVOLUTION | 

g 1915 I 

g At the dedication, Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham i 

g offered prayer and the memorial was unveiled by 1 

g 1 See Appendix. M 

g 2 Accepted by Chapter 7, Resolves of 1913. ^ 

= 5 House Concurrent Resolution No. 58. Aug. 20. iqi2. Gzd M 

^ Congress, 2d Session. s 

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g Miss Elizabeth Lowell Hancock Cole, a lineal g | 

M descendant of Ebenezer Hancock, brother of M \ 

Governor Hancock. It was presented g | 

by Edmund H. Talbot, President of the M l 

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David I. Walsh, Governor, in behalf of the Common- 
wealth. 

Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address 

The bronze memorial on the east wall of Doric 
Hall presents a bust of Abraham Lincoln, ^ Presi- 
dent of the United States, and a tablet containing 
the oration which he delivered at the dedication of 
the National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 
November iq, 1863. The bust is a replica 
of one modelled from life in i860 by 
Leonard W. Volk. The memorial is a gift 



Lincoln 



of the Department of Massachusetts, Woman's Relief 
Corps. 2 It was unveiled March 28, iqi2, by 
Mrs. Fannie E. Wheeler, chairman of the patriotic 
aides, who raised the money, presented by Mrs. 
Nellie F. Libby, Department President, and accepted 
by His Excellency Eugene N. Foss, Governor. 

* See Appendix. 

2 Chapter 8i), Resolves of iqii. 



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I TABLET I 

M FOURSCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO M 

M OUR FATHERS BROUGHT FORTH ON THIS CONTINENT A g 

M NEW NATION g 

M CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY g 

3 AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT AI,T, MEN ARE g 

= CREATED EQUAL. g 

g NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL WAR M 

g TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION OR ANY g 

g NATION SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDICATED CAN LONG ENDURE. g 

g WE ARE MET ON A GREAT BATTLE FIELD OF THAT WAR. g 

M WE HAVE COME TO DEDICATE A PORTION OF THAT FIELD g 

M AS A FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR THOSE WHO HERE GAVE g 

g THEIR LIVES THAT THAT NATION MIGHT LIVE. g 

g IT IS ALTOGETHER FITTING AND PROPER THAT WE SHOULD g 

g DO THIS. BUT IN A LARGER SENSE g 

M WE CANNOT DEDICATE — WE CANNOT CONSECRATE — WE g 

g CANNOT HALLOW THIS GROUND. g 

g THE BRAVE MEN LIVING AND DEAD WHO STRUGGLED HERE g 

g HAVE CONSECRATED IT FAR ABOVE OUR POOR POWER g 

g TO ADD OR DETRACT. g 

g THE WORLD WILL LITTLE NOTE NOR LONG REMEMBER WHAT g 

g WE SAY HERE ' / g 

g BUT IT CAN NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID HERE. g 

= IT IS FOR US THE LIVING RATHER TO BE DEDICATED HERE M 

g TO THE UNFINISHED WORK WHICH THEY WHO FOUGHT g 

g HERE HAVE THUS FAR SO NOBLY ADVANCED. g 

g IT IS RATHER FOR US TO BE HERE DEDICATED TO THE g 

g GREAT TASK REMAINING BEFORE US g 

g THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED g 

g DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE g 

g THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION g 

= THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL g 

g NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN g 

g THAT THIS NATION UNDER GOD SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH g 

g OF FREEDOM AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE g 

g BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT g 

M PERISH FROM THE EARTH. g 



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From portrait painted in 1847, from life, by 

W. A. Wall, in possession of Marcus Morton of 

Newtonville. Purchased under chapter 89, 

Resolves 1899. 
Painted in 1849, from life. Purchased under 

chapter 89, Resolves 1899. 
Copy of painting by Mr. Vinton, in Groton 

Public Library, and from hfe. Purchased 

under chapter 89, Resolves 1899. 
Painted in 1890, from hfe. Presented by Mr, 

Gardner in 1893. 
From photographs. Purchased under chapter 

89, Resolves 1899. 
From photograph. Presented by John F. 

Andrew of Boston, in 1895. 
Painted in 1893, from portrait by Frederick P. 

Vinton. Presented by A. G. Bullock and 

Mrs. Elvira Hazard Bullock of Worcester, 

in 1895, 




Robert Gordon Hardie, . 

Walter M. Brackett, 
Frederick P. Vinton, _ . 

Jean Paul Selinger, . 
Daniel J. Strain, 
Darius Cobb, . 
Horace R, Burdick, 




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1843-44 

1844-51 
1851-53 

1855-58 
1858-61 
1861-66 
1866-69 




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George N. Briggs, 
George S. Boutwell, . 

Henry J. Gardner, . 
Nathaniel P. Banks, 
John A, Andrew, 
Alexander H. Bullock, . 



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From life. Purchased under chapter 89, Re- 
solves 1899. 

From a photograph furnished by the Wash- 
burn family. Purchased under chapter 89, 
Resolves 1899. 

Copy of original painted by Mr. Vinton, now 
in possession of William A. Gaston. Pre- 
sented by Mrs. William Gaston of Boston, 
Dec. 18, 1895. 

From a photograph furnished by Mrs. Adel- 
bert Ames of Lowell. Purchased under 
chapter 89, Resolves 1899. 

From photographs. Purchased under chapter 
89, Resolves 1899. 

Painted in 1900, from photographs furnished 
by Mrs. OUver Ames of Boston. Presented 
by Mrs. Amea in July, 1900. 

From life. Purchased under chapter 89, Re- 
solves" 1899. 


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Frederick P. Vinton, 

Walter Gilman Page, 

Daniel J. Strain, 
Charles A. Whipple, . 

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1875-76 

1883-84 

1884-87 
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William Gaston, 

Benjamin F. Butler, 

George D. Robinson, 
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1 Spanish American War Flags j 

B The ceiling of the passageway in the rear of Doric | 

g Hall contains a skylight with "Liberty" in the centre, | 

g surrounded by the names of the republics of Hellas, | 

M Helvetia, Florence, Venice, Genoa, Iceland, Holland, | 

M Andorra, San Marino and Rome. At one side is the | 

M seal of "Mattachusets Bay in Nova Anglia;" at | 

B the other that of "Plimouth Nov Anglia." | 

M The large bronze case contains the flags of the | 

B volunteer regiments and Naval Brigade of Massa- | 

I chusetts in the Spanish American war, returned to | 

the custody of the Commonwealth j 

through His Excellency Roger Wolcott, | 

Governor, Saturday, Oct. 14, iSqq. | 

They were placed in their present posi- | 



Spanish 
American 
War Flags 



B tion July 31, iqoi, and cannot be removed from | 

B the State House without permission of the General m 

I Court. 1 The flags 2 are twenty-one in number, as B 

B follows: First Regiment Heavy Artillery, one United g 

B States and one State flag; Second, Fifth, Sixth and B 

B Ninth Regiments Infantry, one United States and g 

M one State flag each; Eighth Regiment Infantry, three M 

B United States and two State flags, and one United g 

I States Regimental color; Naval Brigade, one flag | 

B each from the U. S. S. "Prairie," "Catskill," "Le- B 

M high," "Inca" and "Governor Russell." | 

M 1 Chapter 22. Resolves of i8()q. M 

M ^ State flags, white; U. S. Regimental, blue. All flags are ^ 

M silk except the Naval, which are bunting. = 

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1 Grand Staircase Hall | 

g Directly to the north is the Grand Staircase Hall of [ 

m Pavonazzo marble. As one looks through the alcoves | 

g toward Memorial Hall the effect is very beautiful. The | 

H stairs at the right lead to the Senate 

g and those opposite to the executive de- 

H partment. The balcony, formed by the 

B third floor corridors, is surmounted by 



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Staircase 

Hall 



twelve Ionic columns, which are said to be among the 
finest in the world. The windows in the south wall 
are emblematic of manufactures, commerce, educa- 
tion, fisheries and agriculture. Carved in the marble 
at the head of the stairs is the seal of the Colony 
of Massachusetts, 1628-84, also the present official 
coat of arms. 

The paintings upon the north wall, entitled 
"James Otis making his famous argu- 
ment against the Writs of Assistance ^ in 
the old Town House in Boston, in 
February, 1761," "The Boston Tea 



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Party' * and "Paul Revere's Ride," are by Robert Reid. 

Writs of Assistance 

Otis is represented at the moment when he was say- 
ing: " I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers 
and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of 
slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as 

I The Writs of Assistance were general search-warrants which 
allowed the king's officers to enter warehouses or dwellings to 
search for and seize foreign merchandise, on which a duty had 
not been paid. These writs were first petitioned for in Massa- 
chusetts. Their legality was questioned and the matter was 
brought before a court held in the old Town House, as described. 

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f B this Writ of Assistance is." The room is flooded with g- 1 

I H the flickering light from the great open fire, while B | 

i M through the windows, against which the snow has J | 

I B drifted, comes the cold blue light of the late afternoon g | 

I M of that winter's day. | | 

I m John Adams, in a letter to William Tudor, written H | 

I H fifty-six years after the event, gives his recollection of g | 

the scene in part as follows: "The scene S | 

is the Council Chamber in the old Town = | 

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chamber was as respectable an apartment as the House g 

of Commons or the House of Lords in Great Britain, in M 

proportion, or that in the State House in Philadelphia, g 

in which the Declaration of Independence was signed, g 

in 1776. In this chamber, round a great fire, were g 

seated five judges, with Lieutenant Governor Hutchin- g 

son at their head, as Chief Justice, all arrayed in their g 

new, fresh, rich robes of scarlet English broadcloth; in g 

their large cambric bands and immense judicial wigs. g 

In a corner of the room must be placed as a spectator = 

and an auditor, wit, sense, imagination, genius, pathos, g 

reason, prudence, eloquence, learning and immense g 

reading, hanging by the shoulders on two crutches, g 

covered with a great cloth coat, in the person of Mr. g 

Pratt, who had been solicited on both sides, but would g 

engage on neither, being, as Chief Justice of New York, = 

about to leave Boston forever." g 

In the same letter, Mr. Adams, characterizing the g 

arguments of counsel, says: "But Otis was a flame of g 

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M fire! With a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth 1 

g of research, a rapid summary of historical events and i 

g dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic 1 

m glance of his eye into futurity, and a torrent- of im- 1 

8 petuous eloquence, he hurried away everything before | 

g him. American independence was then and there born; 1 

M the seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there 1 

I sown, to defend the vigorous youth, the 

M non sine Diis animosus infans. Every 

M man of a crowded audience appeared to 

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M arms against writs of assistance. Then afid there was 

M the first scene of the first act of opposition to the ar- 

M bitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the 

M child Independence was born. In fifteen years, namely, 

M in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself 

I free." 

I The Boston Tea Party 

M A colonial tax of three pence on a pound of tea had 

g been levied by Parliament, which the colonists refused 

1 to pay. Several vessels were anchored in Boston har- 

M bor waiting for their cargoes to be unloaded. Meeting 

I after meeting had been held by the colonists to discuss 

g the condition of affairs, until finally, in the early even- 

I ing of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams, addressing 

i an assembly in the Old South Church, said, — "We 

g can do no more to save the country," and almost in- 

g stantly a shout was heard, a war-whoop sounded and 

g forty or fifty men, disguised as Indians, hurried to 

I Griffin's wharf, boarded the ships and emptied the tea 

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M into Boston harbor. Mr. Reid's painting represents g | 

g these *' Indians" on a ship in the stream, throwing the B | 

M tea overboard. In the background are warehouses on = I 

g the Boston shore. g | 

m Paul Revere's Ride g | 

= In 1774 General Gage relieved Thomas Hutchinson g I 

M as governor of the Province and troops were sent here g | 

g to enforce certain laws which had been enacted by Par- g | 

liament, but the people moved steadily g f 

on their course and made preparation for g | 

the struggle which they knew must come. g | 

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g posited at Concord, and in April, 1775, it was rumored S 

g that General Gage was determined to destroy them. g 

g On the 1 8th the British troops embarked from Boston. g 

g The following quotation is from Longfellow's poem: — g 

M ***•'!£ the British march g 

= By land or sea from the town to-night. ^ 

g Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch M 

g Of the North Church tower as a signal light. — M 

g One. if by land, and two, if by sea; g 

g And I on the opposite shore will be. M 

M Ready to ride and spread the alarm g 

g Through every Middlesex village and farm. g 

g For the country-folk to be up and to arm." g 

g Paul Revere rowed to the Charlestown shore, and g 

g « * * •• watched with eager search = 

g The belfry tower of the Old North Church * g 

g *#***##*«* = 

M And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height M 

g A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! = 

g He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns. g 

g But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight g 

g A second lamp in the belfry burns! ** g 

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H Then he started on his famous midnight ride to Lex- M 

M ington and Concord. The artist represents him dashing M 

M through a village street, rousing "the country-folk to S 

B be up and to arm." m 

m While Mr. Reid's first painting is notable for its g 

3 fire-light effect, the group on the deck of the ship, in = 

J "The Boston Tea Party," is illuminated by the light g 

M from a lantern in the hold, and again in "Paul Revere's = 

M Ride" one can see the face of Revere, as well as the M 

M figures of the yeoman and his wife, light- 

8 ed by the rays from an invisible fireplace. 

M This series of paintings is completed 

M by two small panels, the one at the left 



Historical 
Paintings 
Reid 



g showing a medallion of John Hancock, while on the B | 

J other is a portrait of Samuel Adams. Forming the H I 

H background are four flags which were used by the M I 

g Massachusetts colonists before the stars and stripes | | 

= were adopted. In the left panel is the "Bunker Hill" M | 

I flag (blue, union white, with the cross of St. George B | 

M and pine tree), and a "Rattle-snake" flag (rattle- B I 

B snake in corner, motto "Don't tread on me," — drawn B I 

B from a flag now in existence in Philadelphia and used B I 

B at the Battle of Bunker Hill); in the right panel a B I 

B white flag with pine tree in the corner and motto "An B i 

B appeal to God," also a red flag, blue union, with B I 

M crosses of St. Andrew and St. George. The latter | f 

B represents the flag familiarly known to the colonists as B i 

J NOTE. The painting of James Otis arguing against the Writs of M i 

^ Assistance was opened for public inspection January i, 1902; The M i 

= Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's Ride on December 5. 1904. g | 

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H the "Union" flag (Union Ensign established in 1707). M 

M A three-cornered hat, battle axe, palm leaves, etc., are M 

M also visible. g 

1 Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely Stevenson | 

M The bronze memorial to Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely g 

H Stevenson, ^ by Bela L. Pratt, in the Grand Stair- g 

B case Hall, was the gift of the Stevenson Memorial M 

M Association and other friends. It presents a figure of g 

M the General in high relief, the orderly and horse in very g 

low relief, and might be entitled g 

"The Commander on the picket line." g 

General Stevenson has dismounted, ad- = 



= Stevenson 



M vanced on foot and stands holding his field glasses, 

H It was unveiled Dec. 7, 1905, by Thomas G. Steven- 

1 son, the General's nephew, presented by Gen. Francis 

B A. Osborn and accepted by Hon. William M. Olin, 

H Secretary of the Commonwealth, ^ after which General 

M Osborn delivered an address. Rev. Edward A. Horton 

B was chaplain of the day. 

g (Inscription) 

g BRIGADIER GENERAL THOMAS GREELY STEVENSON 

^ BORN AT BOSTON FEBRUARY THIRD 1836 

M FIRST COLONEL OF THE 24tH REGIMENT 

M MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1861 

M KILLED IN ACTION COMMANDING THE IST DIVISION 

B 9tH army CORPS 

g AT SPOTTSYLVANIA VIRGINIA MAY TENTH 1864 

H The survivors of the New England Guards, the 

I Fourth Battalion of Infantry, the 24th and 44th Regi- 

J ments of Massachusetts Volunteers, formed the Steven- 

g son Memorial Association. 

^ I See Appendix. 2 Chapter 20, Resolves of 1905. 

g 5^ 

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1 Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow H 

B The bronze bas-relief of Rear Admiral John Ancrum M 

I Winslow ^ was modelled by William Couper. It was g 

g unveiled May 8, iqoq, by Miss Catherine Ricketson, g 

M presented by Councillor Seward W. Jones and accepted g 

M by His Excellency Eben S. Draper, Governor. ^ Prayer M 

B was offered by Rev. Arthur W. Stone, 

M U. S. N. The oration was given by 

= Hon. John W. Weeks, M. C, in the 



Winslow 



I House of Representatives, and among the guests was ^ 

I the Admiral's son, Captain Herbert Winslow, U. S. N. g 

I The crowning success of Admiral Winslow's career M 

I was his command of the U. S. S. "Kearsarge" and his B 

I victory over the Confederate cruiser "Alabama" off B 

I Cherbourg, France, June iq, 1864. He received a vote M 

I of thanks from Congress, being one of nineteen officers, B 

I in our naval service, during the history of the govern- g 

I ment, who have had that distinction. In accepting the g 

I memorial, Governor Draper used this delightful phrase, g 

I — "It will serve always as an inspiration to the youth g 

I of Massachusetts and the country. When they see this g 

I splendid figure, they will be inspired with a desire to g 

I be what he was, — a Christian gentleman, a brave offi- B 

I cer and a devoted patriot." Congressman Weeks closed g 

I his oration by saying, — "While Massachusetts is tak- g 

I ing this action to commemorate in bronze Winslow's g 

I great victory, it does so because he was a resident of g 

I this State and brought signal honor to it. He, how- g 

I 1 See Appendix. 2 Chapter 63, Resolves of iqo8. B 

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B ever, performed this service as a sailor of the United g 

m States and the action which we are taking to-day is of g 

M National as well as State importance. It will furnish M 

M an example for all time to Massachusetts* sons, who g 

g are employed in a nautical profession, to go forth and M 

B do likewise if the opportunity offers. His name will g 

M last as long as the government continues, for it is not g 

likely that there will ever be a single ship g 

contest which will bring greater renown g 

to the victorious commander than has M 



Winslow 



deservedly come to him. . . . Admiral Winslow had 
one great opportunity. Forty-five years later, Massa- 
chusetts, in erecting this memorial, records its de- 
liberate judgment that he was equal to the occasion. 
It made him the Commonwealth's most renowned 
sailor and rendered his name famous for all time." 

(Inscription) 

REAR ADMIRAL JOHN ANCRUM WINSLOW 

BORN NOV. 19, 1811 — DIED SEPT. 29, 1873 

EVER VICTORIOUS FOR THE NATION, HE ADDED IN BATTLE 

FOR THE UNION AS COMMANDER OF THE KEARSARGE 

PECULIAR LUSTRE TO THE ANCIENT SERVICE OF 

MASSACHUSETTS ON THE SEA 



Memorial to the Army Nurses of the 
Civil War 

The bronze memorial to the Army Nurses of the 
Civil War, Bela L. Pratt, sculptor, was given by the 
Army Nurses Memorial Association of the Massachu- 
setts Department, Daughters of Veterans, on Feb. 1 2, 



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H iqi4. The beautiful statuary group represents a nurse M 

H ministering to a wounded soldier. It is an eloquent | 

I tribute to the self-sacrifice, nobility and patriotism of g 

B the women whose work throughout the war was " typi- J 

H fied in love and expressed in sacrifice." g 

I The surviving Massachusetts army nurses were J 

■ guests of honor, and delegations were present from g 

1 the Grand Army of the Republic, 

I Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the 

1 G. A. R., Sons of Veterans and 

H Daughters of Veterans, together with 



Army 

Nurses' 

Memorial 



1 members of the Legislature and other public officials. g 

I The exercises were carried out under the direction g 

I of Thomas F. Pedrick, Sergeant-at-Arms. After an g 

i overture by the orchestra, and the invocation by g 

i Ellen M. Goodman, Department Chaplain, the me- M 

I morial was transferred to the Massachusetts Depart- g 

I ment. Daughters of Veterans, by Etta Tayne Hazen, J 

j President of the Army Nurses' Memorial Association. g 

I It was presented to the Commonwealth by Agnes I. g 

i McCoy, Department President, and was unveiled by | 

I Dorothy Standish Lewis, granddaughter of an army g 

I nurse, Mrs. Ellen S. Tolman. A bugle proclamation g 

i by J . Payson Bradley, Past Department Commander, | 

I preceded the introduction of His Excellency David I. | 

I Walsh, Governor, who accepted the gift "in the | 

I name of all the people of Massachusetts." ^ g 

I Addresses on behalf of the Grand Army of the Re- M 

I public were made by Thomas J. Ames, Department | 

M 1 Chapter 21. Resolves of iqii. g 

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§ Commander, and John E. Gilman, Past Commander 1 

in Chief. Rev. Edward A. Horton, = 

Chaplain of the Senate, offered the 1 

dedication prayer, and Hon. Curtis 1 

Guild, Jr., ex-Governor, delivered the 1 



Army 

Nurses* 

Memorial 



oration. The program closed with the singing of 
"America" by the entire audience. 

(Inscription) 

TO THE ARMY NURSES 

FROM 1861 TO 1865 

ANGELS OP MERCY AND LIFE 

AMID SCENES OF CONFLICT AND DEATH 

A TRIBUTE OF HONOR AND GRATITUDE 

FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT 

DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS 

1914 



War Records — Schouler 

The Adjutant General is custodian of the militia 
records of Massachusetts during the last three years 
of the Revolution; the records of the militia who re- 
sponded to the call of the Governor to repel a threatened 
invasion during the War of 1 812; the partial records 
of the ist Regiment, that served in the 
Mexican war; the records of Massachu- 
setts in the Civil and Spanish American 
wars; orders of the Governor and Coun- 
cil on military matters, 1780 to 1840; 



War 
Records 

Schouler 



I general orders from 1795 to the present; special orders | 

= from 1846 to date; commissions in the militia from M 

M 1780 to date; the roll of enlisted men since 1807 (in- | 

g eluding Maine up to 1820); and a portrait of William M 

M Schouler, ^ Adjutant General, 1860-66, by Thomas C. B 

M Corner, presented by James Schouler Aug. 5, iSqq. g 

^ 1 See Appendix. ^ 

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1 Memorial Hall — Civil War Flags — 

1 . Historical Paintings 

= Nearly in the centre of the building is Memorial Hall. 

m Sixteen pillars of Siena marble support the circular gal- 

H lery. The dome is surrounded by a 

g heavy bronze cornice environed by the 

H eagles of the Republic, and above them, 



Memorial 
Hall 



in cathedral glass, is the seal of the Commonwealth, 
encircled, within laurel wreaths, by the seals of 
the other twelve original states. To distinguish them, 
begin with the one directly north of the Massachusetts 
seal, and follow around to the right: — Rhode Island, 
New Jersey, Connecticut, South Carolina, Virginia, 
Delaware, North Carolina, New York, New Hampshire, 
Maryland, Georgia, Pennsylvania. 

Within four niches are the battle flags carried by 
Massachusetts volunteers during the war of the rebel- 
lion. By General Order No. 94 of the War Depart- 
ment, issued May 15, 1865, the volun- 
teer regiments and batteries, when 
mustered out and discharged, deposited 



Battle 
Flags 



J their colors with Brevet Col. Francis N. Clarke, 

H U. S. A., chief mustering officer. Forefathers' Day, 

m Dec 22, 1865, the two hundred and forty-fifth anniver- 

I sary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, was 

m selected for the return of the colors to the State, and 

M Maj. Gen. Darius N. Couch was chosen commanding 

M general. His headquarters were established on Boston 

S Common, and before the procession started, these colors 

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were turned over to him by Colonel Clarke. The flags 
of those regiments and companies, which had filled 
their allotted term of service prior to 
May 15, were taken from the State House 
and delivered to the several commands 



Battle 
Flags 



I for use during the exercises. ^ 

I As the regiments and batteries arrived at the State | 

I House, the color -bearers left the ranks and arranged M 

I themselves upon the steps, while the remainder filed % 

j to the grounds at either side. Governor Andrew, at- g 

I tended by his staff and invited guests, came down the M 

I steps to the place designated for the closing ceremonies. g 

I Prayer was offered by Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D., M 

I then General Couch delivered the colors to the gov- H 

I ernor, who accepted them in behalf of the people and H 

I the government, after which they were placed in Doric g 

I Hall. I 

I Extract from Gov. Andrew's speech on receiving the g 

I ■ battle flags : — g 

= ■ These banners are returned to the government of the Com- g 

= monwealth through welcome hands. Borne one by one out of ^ 

1 this Capitol during more than four years of civil war. as the ^ 

g symbols of the Nation and the Commonwealth under which the W. 

1 battalions of Massachusetts departed to the fields, they come ^ 

1 back again, borne hither by surviving representatives of the same g 

1 heroic regiments and companies to which they were intrusted. ... g 

1 Proud memories of many fields; sweet memories alike of valor = 

g and friendship; sad memories of fraternal strife; tender memories ^ 

1 of our fallen brothers and sons, whose dying eyes looked last g 

1 upon their flaming folds; grand memories of heroic virtues sublime g 

M by grief; exultant memories of the great and final victories of ^ 

= our country, our Union and the righteous cause; thankful memo- ^ 

M ries of a deliverance wrought out for human nature itself. ^ 

g unexampled by any former achievement of arms; immortal = 

^ memories with immortal honors blended. — twine around these ^ 

g splintered staves, weave themselves along the warp and woof of ^ 

g these familiar flags, war-worn, begrimed, and baptized with blood. ^ 

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i On Dec. 22, 1894, six flags were returned to the J 

1 State, with public ceremonies. Five of these were J 

1 recaptured flags forwarded by the War 

1 Department, at the governor's request, 

I in accordance with Public Resolution No. 

■ 44, approved Aug. 27, 1894. 

i A few other flags have been received from various 

1 sources, until now there are 303 in Memorial Hall, 

B divided as follows : — 



Battle 
Flags 



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= Infantry flags and shattered staves (4), . 

3 Heavy Artillery 

g Cavalry _ 

I g Light Artillery 44 g | 

: M Fourth Brigade Cavalry ' g | 

; 3 McLaughlin's Brigade ' g | 

: 3 Unknown. ...-•••••^ =1 

^ S Flag presented to Massachusetts by State of Mary- p | 

I g land ' g I 

I m 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps ' g | 

I M Fragment of Fort Sumter flag, .... L g I 

I 1 The colors were at first draped around the pillars | | 

I I in Doric Hall, but on April 12. 1866, were ordered | | 

I ■ placed in the niches on the north side of the hall g j 

I I and in the sides of the recess occupied by the Wash- | | 

I 1 ington statue. In 1895 they were stored in a fire- g j 

1 I proof room, where they remained until placed in J [ 

i 1 Memorial Hall, April 2, iqoo. M | 

! 1 Mr. Charles O. Eaton, of Boston, made all the J | 

I 1 colors that were issued by the State to Massachu- | | 

I 1 setts troops in the war of the rebellion, as well as g j 

I 1 the Spanish American war, and had the care of them ^ J j 

I 1 until his death, Oct. 16, 1903. g | 

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I The following list gives the number of colors in M 

M Memorial Hall May i, iqij, prepared chiefly from g 

B a record compiled by the late Captain John G. B. g 

g Adams, Sergeant-at-Arms. Flags known to have g 

been returned since Dec. 22, 1865, are M 

mentioned in footnotes. All are silk un- M 

less otherwise specified. The flags are S 

permanently arranged, and under a resolve of April 12, g 

1866, cannot be removed from the State House g 

without permission of the Legislature. ^ = 

If a story of the battle flags of the civil war could = 

be written, it would be of great historic value, because g 

so many memories are entwined around them, but g 

no attempt has been made to do so in this guide book, g 

as space would not permit, and yet, if publishing M 

this list will aid in promoting the return of any other g 

flags of Massachusetts regiments which may be in g 

the possession of individuals or associations, it will g 

be sincerely gratifying. g 

1 Journal of the House of Representatives. Jan. 18. 1866; Chapter g 

38, Resolves of 1866. ^ 



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Battle Flags 



Infantry. 


United 

States. 


State. 


Miscellaneous. 


1st Regiment, 

2nd 

3rd 

4th 

5th 

6th 

7th 

8th 

9th 

10th 

nth 


3 
11 

1 
1 
I 
42 

1 
41 

3 

26 

1 


2 white. 

(1 " 
\ 1 bhio. I 
1 white. 

1 " 

1 

1 " 

1 " 3 

1 " 

2 5 

( 1 blue. 6 
\ 1 white. 6 

3 white. 


( 2 shattered staves. 1 
) 

1 {]. S. Regimental (blue). 

1 1 green embroidered. ^ 
\ 2 green. 

1 U. S. Regimental (blue). 



1 The U. S. flag was presented by ladies of Boston, June 26, 1861. 
The two shattered staves belong to this flag; one is the original; 
the other was presented by Fanny Mudge; the staff to which the 
flag is attached was the gift of Marie Louise Mudge and Feroline 
Pierce Fox as a memorial of the battle of Gettysburg. The blue 
State flag is known as the "Choate flag." 

2 Three U. S. flags were received from the Sixth Regiment Associ- 
ation, by vote of April 19, 1900, and placed in Memorial Hall April 
10, 1901. One U. S. flag was the gift of citizens of Baltimore, Mary- 
land. 

^ The State flag was returned to the Commonwealth Oct. 30, 
1894; placed in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms Dec. 22, 1894. 

* Three U. S. flags were received Jan. 12, 1900, from Benjamin 
F. Peach, late colonel Eighth Regiment, M. V. M.; deposited in 
Memorial Hall Feb. 5, 1900. One was presented to the regiment by 
the sons of Massachusetts residing in New York; one on June 20, 
1861, by the lady friends of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.; 
one by the loyal citizens of Baltimore, Maryland. 

5 One State flag is white; the other white front, reverse green. 
One green flag was presented to the regiment by the Irish citizens 
of Boston; the other by friends of the regiment. The embroidered 
flag by the officers of the 63d, 69th and 88th N. Y. Vols., Irish Bri- 
gade. 

* One of the U.S. flags and the blue State flag were presented by 
ladies of Springfield, July 15, 1861. The other U. S. flag and the 
white State flag were returned to Governor Eben S. Draper from 
the Northampton Public Library on April 22, 1909. The blue State 
flag is not on the original staff ; a limb from a tree serves in its stead. 



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Battle Flags 



Infantry. 


United 

States. 


State. 


Miscellaneous. 


12th Regiment, 

13th 

14th 

15th 

16th 

17th 

18th 

19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 


2 
1 

1 

22 

2 
3 
2 

5^ 

3 

3 

3« 

2 


2 white. 
2 " 
1 " 

1 " 

2 " 

3 " 

2 " 3 

3 " 4 

2 " 5 

2 " 

1 " 

2 " 7 


1 State "Webster" (white). i 
1 shattered staff 

1 shattered staff. 



= 1 The "Webster" flag was presented by ladies of Boston, July 18, ^ 

^ 1861. It was received by vote of the Twelfth Regiment Association ^ 

g passed Jan. 20, 1898; placed in Memorial Hall. Feb. 28, 1900. m 

g 2 One U. S. flag was returned by the U. S. Government (see page = 

g 59; placed with the other flags Dec. 22, 1894. The other was pre- g 

^ sented by ladies of Worcester, Aug. 7, 1861. g 

= 3 One State flag captured by the 27th Virginia Infantry at the ^ 

^ second battle of Manassas, was returned to Gov. William L. Douglas g 

^ April 13, 1905, by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society of ^ 

g Richmond, Va.; placed in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms the ^ 

^ same day. g 

^ * One U.S. flag was returned by the U. S. Government (see page ^ 

p 59); placed with the other flags Dec. 22, 1894. A State flag, captured ^ 

g in Virginia in 1864 and rescued by Edward H. Bissell of Charlotte, g 

= N. C, was received at the State House in March, 1867. It was miss- ^ 

= ing for many years, but was found among the effects of Col. Nehe- ^ 

g miah Brown, late Assistant Adjutant General. His nephew, Ralph g 

p G. Brown of Marblehead, presented it to Governor Douglas April g 

g 18, 1905 On one side is the State coat-of-arms ; on the reverse a g 

p pine tree, liberty cap and motto "God speed the right." Both g 

= flags were captured at Petersburg, Va., June 22, 1864. ^ 

^ 6 One State flag was returned to Governor Alexander H. Bullock m 

g Sept. 12, 1866. g 

= 6 One U. S. flag was presented by citizens of Boston, Oct. 8, 1861. ^ 

g The following day the regiment received another American flag = 

p from a committee of ladies in New York. g 

g 7 One State flag was returned by the U. S. Government (see ^ 

g page 59); placed with the other flags Dec. 22, 1894. p 

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Battle Flags 



Infantry. 


United 

States. 


State. 


Miscellaneous. 


24th Regiment, 


21 


- 


_ 


25th 


2 


1 blue. 2 


- 


26th 


2 


2 white. 


- 


27th 


2 


1 " 


- 


28th 


3 


2 • " 


1 green, s 


29th 


3 


1 " 


- 


30th 


3* 


1 " 


- 


31st 


35 


2 " 


- 


32d 


1 


1 " 


_ 


33d 


3 


2 " 


- 


34th 


16 


1 " 


1 U. S. Regimental (blue). 


35th 


2 


- 


2 U. S. Regimental (blue). 


36th 


27 


2 white. 


- 


37th 


2 


1 " 


- 


38th 


2 


1 " 


1 U. S. Regimental (blue). 


39th 


2 


2 " 


- 


40th 


2 


2 " 


1 U. S. Regimental (blue). 


41st 


1 


1 


Their original flags were lost 
at Galveston. 



1 The colors were received by Governor Alexander H. Bullock 
Jan. 27, 1866. 

2 The State flag was presented by several ladies of Worcester in 
March, 1864. 

3 The green flag was presented by the city of Boston in 1862. 

* One U. S. flag was presented by Governor Andrew, in behalf 
of friends, at Boston, March 3, 1864. 

6 One U. S. flag was given by Mrs. Morewood while the regiment 
was being raised at Pittsfield. 

6 The U. S. flag was presented by ladies of Worcester in Novem- 
ber, 1864. 

7 One U. S. flag was presented by ladies of Worcester, Sept. 2, 
1862. It was returned to Governor Andrew in 1864, and the 
regiment received a new flag from the United States. 



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Battle Flags 



Infantry. 



United 

States. 


State. 




1 white. 
























1 •' 






1 - 














2 " 3 






2 




2* 




25 


2 " 5 


2 




1 




1 





Miscellaneous. 



42d Regiment, 

43d 

44th 

45th 

46th 

47th 

48th 

49th 

50th 

51st 

52d 

53d 

54th 

55th 

56th 

57th 

58th 

59th 

60th 

61st 



1 blue marker, i 



^ 1 The marker flag was presented to Governor Eben S. Draper, M 

M Feb. 28, 1910, by George M. Fiske, for the 42nd Regiment Association; ^ 

^ received by the Sergeant-at-Arms, April 15, 1910. It was captured ^ 

g at the battle of Galveston, Jan. 1, 1863. Gen. T. B. Howard sent ^ 

M it to Mr. Fiske on Oct. 6, 1901, through Dick Dowling Camp of Con- ^ 

^ federate Veterans, Galveston, for transmittal to the Association. ^ 

^ 2 The U. S. flag was presented by ladies of Worcester County, ^ 

g Nov. 24, 1862. m 

^ 3 One State flag, captured at Fort Wagner, S. C, was returned to ^ 

^ Governor William Gaston, March 31, 1875, by Gen. R. S. Ripley. ^ 

^ * A recaptured U. S. flag was returned to Governor William L. ^ 

M Douglas by the Secretary of War, — joint resolution of Congress, = 

^ approved Feb. 28, 1905, — and received by the Sergeant-at-Arms ^ 

^ April 28, 1905. On a cloth tag attached are the words "Lt. Wilson, = 

g Co. C, 61st. Va. Reg't." M 

= 6 One U. S. and one State flag were returned by the U. S. Gov- = 

^ ernment (see page 59) ; placed with the other flags Dec. 22, 1894. ^ 

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Battle Guidons 



Light Artilleuy. 



1st Battery, 
2il 

3 J 
4th 
5th 
6th 
7th 
8th 
9th 
10th' " 

nth 

12th 
13th 
14th 
15th 
16th 



United 
States. 



State. 




1 red and white. 

f 1 red and white. 
( 1 white. 1 



2 red and white. 
1 red and white. 

1 red and white. 

2 red and white. 

( 1 red and white. 
1 red. 

3 red and white. 

1 red and white. 
1 red and white. 
1 red and white. 
1 red and white. 
1 red and white. 



1 The white silk guidon was presented to Governor Eben S. Draper 
June 10, 1910, by Brevet Colonel Ormand F. Nims. The battery 
had it made in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1864, to bring home with 
them. On being mustered out August 11, 1865, they presented 
the guidon to their commanding officer, then Captain Nims, ^nd 
at the age of 92 he transferred it to the care of the Commonwealth. 

2 One of their guidons was returned to Adjutant General Samuel 
Dalton by the 10th Battery Association and placed in the custody 
of the Sergeant-at-Arms April 1, 1886. 



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Battle Flags 



Heavy Artillery. 


United 
States. 


State. 


Miscellaneous. 


1st Regiment, 

2d " 

3d " 

4th 

1st Battalion, 


2 

1 
1 
1 


2 yellow. 

1 

1 

1 

1 


2 U. S. guidons 
(bunting). 

2 U. S. guidons. 



Battle Flags 



Cavalry. 


United 
States. 


State. 


Miscellaneous. 


1st Regiment, 

2d " 

3d •• . . 

4th 2 

5th 

1st Battalion Frontier 
Cavalry. 


1 

1 
2 

5 guidons. ' 


1 blue. 

1 " 
1 " 
I " 
1 " 


1 staff, with a 
small portion 
of blue flag at- 
tached. 

1 U. S. guidon, i 

1 U. S. guidon. 



1 A recaptured U. S. guidon, returned to Gov. William L. Doug- 
las by the Secretary of War, — joint resolution of Congress, No. 
217, approved Feb. 28, 1905, — and received by the Sergeant-at- 
Arms April 4, 1905. This was captured near Aldie, Virginia, by 
the 3d Virginia Cavalry, June 17, 1863. 

2 Fragments of E and H squadron guidons are in the Senate 
reception room; returned to Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor, Jan. 1, 
1909. They were the first colors placed upon the capitol, Richmond, 
Va., April 3, 1865, flying until replaced by a garrison flag. 

3 One each, Cos. A, B, C, D, E. 



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Battle Flags 

Fourth Brigade, Cavalry Division. Department of the Gulf, 
composed of the 2d Illinois Cavalry. 3d Massachusetts Cavalry. 6th 
Massachusetts Cavalry (3 ist Massachusetts Infantry mounted). 
2.d New Hampshire Cavalry (8th New Hampshire Infantry 
mounted). Col. N. A. M. Dudley commanding, i light-blue 
flag with cross sabres embroidered, prepared by ladies of Massa- 
chusetts residing in New Orleans, La., and presented Feb. 6. 1864. 
After the Red River campaign, the brigade having been disbanded. 
Colonel Dudley placed the flag in the custody of Massachusetts, 
the home State of the donors and of a majority of the men. 

McLaughlin's Brigade, i dark-blue bunting flag. 

One U. S. flag, presented to Massachusetts by the State of 
Maryland, at Lowell, June 17, 1865, after the dedication of the 
Ladd and Whitney monument. It was made by a number of 
Maryland ladies, has thirty-five stars embroidered in the Union, 
and bears the date "April ig, 1865." 

A fragment of a flag of the 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, 
was presented to the Sergeant-at-Arms in November, 1894, by 
Charles P. Schoff, son of Lieut. Edward N. Schoff. of the iqth 
Massachusetts Infantry. The fragment is of blue bunting and 
a portion of one clover leaf is attached. 

There is also in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms a small 
piece of the National flag which was torn in fragments and 
distributed among the guard at the evacuation of Fort Sumter, 
and an autograph of Abraham Lincoln, to a friend of his family. 
These were presented by Mrs. D. P. Corey, of Maiden, Mass., 
and accepted by the Governor and Council April 26, iqi6. 



g Unknown Colors g 

M No. I. A U.S. guidon. M 

M No. 2. A fragment of a U. S. guidon, with letters *'Co. B" M 

J and two embroidered stars. Nos. i and 2 are attached to one M 

M ^^^^- - B 

^ No. 3. A U.S. flag, badly torn; Union nearly all gone; no M 

M lettering and the flag is not on original staff. ^ 

= No. 4. A state color, but there is not enough left to desig- = 

^ nate to which regiment it belongs. ^ 

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I The north and south panels contain paintings by g | 

M Henry Oliver Walker. g | 

1 The Pilgrims on the " Mayflower " ^ g j 

g A group of Pilgrims is seen on the deck of the M | 

J "Mayflower," at the end of their long voyage. Worn g I 

M with suffering and fatigue, they are gazing at the g i 

shore, which is at last in sight. The g i 

painting aims to represent the spirit of g | 

that moment. The actual forms of the M \ 

Pilgrims are not known. There is g I 



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Paintings 
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B thought to be in existence an authentic portrait of g 

g only one of them, but types have been selected to = 

m, represent, if possible, their physical bearing. The g 

g spectator may fancy that he sees in this assemblage g 

g the shapes of Brewster, Bradford, Winslow, Carver, g 

I Standish and Alden. g 

g Over their heads are two angels bearing an open g 

g Bible, and across the painting is the inscription, g 

g * ' For the Lord is our defence, and the Holy One g 

g of Israel is our King." (Psalms 8q : i8.) g 

g John Eliot preaching to the Indians^' g 

g The scene chosen by the artist is a spot on the g 

= Charles River near Natick. John Eliot is shown g 

g engaged in his life work of preaching the Gospel to g 

g the Indians. g 

g 1 Unveiled for public inspection May zq, 1902. g 

g 2 Exposed to view April 8, 1903. g 

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The paintings in the east and west panels are 
by Edward Simmons. 

Concord Bridge, April 19, 1775^ 

The first armed resistance to British aggression. 

When General Gage dispatched eight hundred 
men, under Lieutenant Colonel Smith and Major 
Pitcairn, to Lexington and Concord, 
on the evening of April i8, 1775, he 
thought his plans were unknown to the 
patriots, but Dr. Joseph Warren had 



Historical 
Paintings 
Simmons 



m been watching his movements and Paul Revere was g 

I well on his way to arouse the inhabitants. = 

g On the morning of April iq, Pitcairn reached g 

g Lexington and found about seventy patriots there B 

g to oppose his advance. He ordered them to disperse B 

g but they refused, and the first blood of the Revo- B 

g lution was shed. The British troops kept on to g 

M Concord and three companies were detailed to guard B 

M the North Bridge. Two companies of patriots, under B 

B command of Major John Buttrick, volunteered to dis- = 

g lodge the guard. As they drew near the bridge the | 

S British fired and a general action ensued, when the B 

g British retreated jn confusion. Mr. Simmons repre- M 

g ' sents the patriots rushing down the road to dislodge the g 

J enemy, while the red-coats can be seen in the distance. B 

g The Return of the Colors to the Custody I 

g of the Commonwealth, Dec. 22, 1865 ^ | 

g This represents the scene described on pages ^7 g 

g and 58. g 

= 1 Exposed to view Dec. i8, 1Q02. g 

^ 2 Unveiled for public inspection May zq. iqoz. g 

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Maj. Gen. William Francis Bartlett 1 

In the northeast niche is a bronze statue of Major = 

General William Francis Bartlett, ^ — the hero of Port g 

Hudson, — by Daniel Chester French. J 

Chapter 55, Resolves of iqoi, provided J 

that this statue should be erected on the g 



e Bartlett 



I H State House grounds, but on April ^q, 1903, the gov- g | 

I M ernor and council voted that it should be placed M | 

I I in Memorial Hall, as authorized by chapter 4 of the M | 

I = Resolves of 1903. | I 

I g The statue was dedicated May 27, 1904, the anni- g | 

I g versary of the assault on the Confederate' works g | 

I g at Port Hudson, Louisiana. After the presentation g | 

I m address by Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., g | 

i M Master James Dwight Francis, grandson of General | | 

I B Bartlett, unveiled the statue and it was accepted by § | 

f B Governor John L. Bates in the presence of Mrs. g | 

I a Bartlett and family, a large company of civil war g | 

I m veterans of the 20th, 4qth and 57th regiments, state J | 

I I officials and other invited guests. After the cere- g | 

I B monies in Memorial Hall, the more formal exercises B | 

I B were held in the House of Representatives, Gov- M | 

I B ernor Bates presiding, and the oration was delivered g | 

I B t)y Brigadier General Morris Schaff. g | 

I g (Inscription) g f 

I a WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT g | 

i M A VOLUNTEER IN THE CIVIL WAR g | 

IB A MAJOR GENERAL AT THE AGE OP TWENTY-POUR g | 

I g FOREMOST TO PLEAD FOR RECONCILIATION g | 

I g BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH g | 

I g BORN 1840. i DIED 1876. g I 

I M 1 See Appendix. M = 

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g The statue is of heroic size. It represents General | 

= Bartlett saluting the colors, — wearing the old time g 

I army coat, with long-skirted dress coat 

M and high boots, with the sword and belt 

m of the mounted officer, one hand grasping 



Bartlett 



M the hilt of his sword, while in the other is the once 

M familiar army hat. In the niche at the right are the 

M colors of the 20th regiment in which he served as cap- 

I tain, while opposite are the colors of the 4qth and 57th 

H regiments, both of which he commanded as colonel. 

m The pedestal is made of "Cippolino" marble 

M from Italy. 

■ Ames — Russell — Greenhalge 

I In arched recesses may be seen busts of gov- 

M ernors : — • 

g Oliver Ames, 1887-qo. Modelled by Robert 

M Kraus in 1890 and presented by Mrs. 

M Ames in iqco. 

m William E. Russell, 1891-94. Mod- 



Busts 



= elled by Richard E. Brooks in 1893 and presented = 

M by friends in 1897. = 

g Frederic T. Greenhalge, 1894-96. Modelled by M 

M Samuel J. Kitson in 1895 and presented by citizens M 

I of Lowell, Feb. 28, 1896. S 

M The total expenditure for Memorial Hall was | 

M $309,118.93. The floors of this and the Grand M 

B Staircase Hall are inlaid with six varieties of marble, g 

M — white Italian, Pavonazzo, grand antique, Langue- | 

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M doc, Siena and Vert Campan. The fireplaces in the M 

I Senate reading room and office of Clerk, House of M 

M Representatives, are made of onyx; the one in the M 

office of the President of the Senate is B 

black and gold Italian marble; those g 

in the reception, reading and writing M 



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rooms, House of Representatives, are Siena marble; 
those in the rooms of the Clerk of the Senate, Speaker 
of the House, Committee on Rules and private room 
of the House Clerk, are Rouge jasper. Several other 
rooms have fireplaces of Siena marble and there is 
one of shell marble. The white marble in the in- 
terior of the State House Extension is Italian, and the 
only American marble is that on its exterior, which was 
quarried in Lee, Mass. The East and West wings are 
built of Vermont marble, Massachusetts marble being 
used in the interior of the lateral portions. Vermont 
marble is in the West Wing, forward projection. The 
door trim and base in the main corridors of the Wings 
are Belgian black marble, and in the offices, French gray. 

The Guild Memorial 

The memorial to His Excellency Curtis Guild, 
Governor, forms one of the panels in the west corridor, 
north of Memorial Hall. It is a tablet, 
the general character of which is not 
unlike those usually put up in Italy 



Guild 
Memorial 



= during the early Renaissance. It consists of the 
g tablet proper of Numidian marble, into which is in- 
M serted a white marble bas relief portrait of Governor 

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M Guild and a memorial inscription in letters of gilded = 

M bronze. Outside this is an architectural frame, with a H 

M base, pilasters, and cornice of Istrian stone. In the | 

M ornament of the pilasters are indicated 

B some of the Degrees and Orders con- 

m ferred on Governor Guild, and the arms 



Guild 
Memorial 



M of nations to which he was accredited as Ambassador. g 

m On the base are carved the arms of the Common- M 

g wealth and of Governor Guild. g 

M (Inscription) M 

m CURTIS GUILD 1 

M 1860-1915 m 

M CITIZEN OP BOSTON M 

g A SOLDIER IN THE WAR M 

M WITH SPAIN. LIEUTENANT g 

^ GOVERNOR AND GOVERNOR g 

^ OP THE COMMONWEALTH. M 

^ SPECIAL AMBASSADOR M 

g TO MEXICO AND AMBASSADOR g 

= TO RUSSIA. TRUE SERVANT M 

^ OP MASSACHUSETTS AND = 

g OP THE UNITED STATES. g 

J The memorial was designed by Ralph Adams Cram M 

M and Frank W. Ferguson, and, with the exception of g 

g the bas relief, was executed by John Evans 6z Company. g 

g The bas relief was modelled and carved by Richard g 

g Recchia. The gift was paid for by a popular sub- g 

g scription of many hundred citizens. g 

g The dedicatory exercises were held on December g 

g 22, iqi6, in the presence of Mrs. Guild, Miss Sarah L. M 

g Guild and Mr. Courtney Guild and other members of g 

I the family, the staff of the late Governor, the memorial g 

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committee and many friends. Mr. John Wheelwright, 
vice-chairman of the committee, presided, and prayer 
was offered by Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. The 
memorial steps on the Common were presented to the 
City of Boston and accepted by His Honor James M. 
Curley, Mayor. Then Mr. Wheelwright presented the 
tablet, and the National and State flags, 
which draped the gift, were drawn aside 
by Master Edward Orlandini, nephew 



Guild 
Memorial 



M of Mrs. Guild. His Excellency, Samuel W. McCall, g 

= Governor, accepted the memorial in behalf of the = 

g Commonwealth, saying, in part: — g 

M "His career of public service in the Commonwealth, M 

M in the Army of the United States, and as Ambassador | 

= to foreign countries, was one of rare distinction. As | 

I Governor, he aimed to have put upon the statute g 

M books liberal laws framed in the interest of all the g 

g people. He did much as the representative of this M 

M country abroad to promote international amity, and m 

M as an officer in the Army he introduced reforms of an S 

S enduring character in his branch of the service." g 

M The formal address was by Hon. Herbert Parker, g 

B and a few words are quoted from his oration : — g 

8 "As upon the accents of his own voice, in this g 

g sanctuary of the holy ideals of the Commonwealth, the M 

M flags he loved, and which for him floated always in the g 

g empyrean heights of his own exalted faith, stir, re- g 

H sponsive to our thought, and from their radiant folds, g 

B the light of memory and of prophecy opens to our g 

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vision new vistas of the past and of the future. In the 
ardor of this atmosphere, this monument erected in 
grateful tribute to one who has served and honored 
the State of his birth, and of his love, here dedicated 
by our pledge of loyalty such as he inspired, shall be 
safeguarded and cherished from year to year, and be 
preserved through the inseparable suc- 
cession of the days that are past and 
the constant renewal of the days that 



Guild 
Memorial 



S are to come, and so the name and fame of one who | 

M has been crowned by the esteem and admiration | 

M of the people of his own time, becomes immortal, | 

M perpetuate in the history of his country, and lives so | 

M long as the nation itself shall survive. May the spirit | 

m that animated his soul still lead his countrymen as | 

g when he lived. | 

M "... fill up the gaps in our files, | 

H Strengthen the wavering line, | 

m Stablish. continue our march, | 

B On, to the bound of the waste, | 

H On, to the City of God." I 

M The exercises closed with the benediction by His | 

M Eminence Cardinal William H. O'Connell. | 

1 Main Staircase — Colony and State Seals | 

M Passing out of Memorial Hall and ascending the | 

M main staircase, the visitor will notice a stained-glass | 

M window, containing reproductions of the various j 

M official seals of Massachusetts. | 

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Centre, seal of the Colony of Massachusetts, au- 
thorized by its charter of March 4, 1628-29.^ In 
April, 1629, the governor in England wrote the 
colonists here that he had sent over "the 
Companyes scale in silver, by Mr. Samuell 
Sharpe, a passenger." It is oval and bears 



= Seals 



B the device of an Indian, holding a bow and arrow, and g 

M standing between two pine trees. Around this device M 

= are the words "Sigillum Cub Et Societ De Matta- g 

M chusets Bay In Nova Anglia." The Indian is repre- | 

B sented as speaking the prayer of a man of Macedonia m 

M to St. Paul, — "Come over and help us." (The M 

B Acts of the Apostles 16 : q.) This was the only seal M 

I used until the abrogation of the first charter, in 1684. B 

B The next seal was furnished in 1686 by King James = 

B II while Sir Edmund Andros was governor, and was M 

S in use until the downfall of the king, in i68q. This g 

B has two sides, both being represented in the window. | 

B The armorial part consists of the royal arms, but | 

B distinguished therefrom by adding the words "Sigillum M 

S Novae Angliae in America." Below are seals of the g 

B Province, from 1692 to the Revolution, granted under g 

B the second charter, — the first during the reign of g 

B George I, the second about 1728, under George II. g 

M On the accession of George III, his name was sub- g 

B stituted for the latter. These seals contain the g 

B royal arms, with the addition of a motto pertaining to M 

B the Province. " g 

g Still lower down is the seal adopted Aug. 5, i775> H 

B of an "English American holding a sword in the right M 

W * Mass. Records, Vol. i, pp. 10. 397- g 

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M hand and Magna Charta in the left hand, with the M 

M words 'Magna Charta' imprinted on it." The coat- H 

m of-arms, which was used from the adoption of the = 

g State constitution in 1780 until June 14, 

M i8q8, is also reproduced. At the left of 

I the Magna Charta seal is the personal 



Seals 



g seal of Governor Francis Bernard, 1760-69, and at | 

= the right that of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, | 

I 1769-74 (acting governor the first two years). | 

I Under the Province charter all commissions to | 

I officers in the military service were issued under a | 

M privy seal, bearing the personal coat-of-arms of the | 

H governor. The seals were usually circular. Several of | 

g these arms (the armorial portion) are shown, and in | 

M addition to the dates, which appear in the window, | 

B the names of the respective governors are given. | 

J In the left section are the arms of the following: — | 

= Sir William Phipps, . . . . . 1691-94 | 

M William Stoughton (lieutenant governor, act- | 

= ing governor). ..... 1694-99 I 

g Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont. . . 1699-1 701 | 

M Joseph Dudley, ..... 1702-15 | 

= Samuel Shute, . . ' . . . . 1716-22 | 

g In the right section : — | 

= William Dummer (lieutenant governor, act- | 

= ing governor) 1723-28 | 

M William Burnet, ..... 1728-29 | 

g Jonathan Belcher, ..... 1730-41 | 

g William Shirley, ..... 1741-57 | 

g Thomas Pownall, ..... 1757-60 | 

g The seals of Governors Bernard and Hutchinson | 

M have already been mentioned. | 

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1 Executive Department — Council Chamber J 

m The executive department occupies the south- g 

B west portion of the Bulfinch Front, third floor, with = 

g adjoining rooms in the lateral portion of the West g 

Wing. All the governors elected under g 

the constitution of Massachusetts, except g 

three, performed the duties of their g 

office in these Bulfinch rooms, the ad- = 



Executive 
Depart- 
ment 



ministrations of John Hancock, James Bowdoin and 
Samuel Adams having ended before the completion 
of the Bulfinch State House. ^ 

The Council Chamber is of the Corinthian order. 
The north wall is ornamented by the caduceus and 
cap of liberty, representing peace and freedom; the 
east wall by a golden star, representing 
Massachusetts, — one of the thirteen 
original States; the south wall by the scale 



Council 
Chamber 



and sword of justice, emblems of executive power; the 
west wall by the coat-of-arms. Wreaths of oak and 
laurel complete the decorations. The walls and orna- 
mentations of this room were placed there by Bulfinch. 
There is a beautiful black and gold Italian marble 
mantel, with carved oak mirror, in the Governor's 
private of^ce. Two mantels of white 
Italian marble have been placed in the 
new rooms; these latter were taken in 



Marbles 



1Q16 from the house numbered 28 Beacon Street, M 

comer of Hancock Avenue, just before it was razed. | 

1 During the alterations of i8q6 and i8q7 the governor and coun- g 

cil occupied rooms Nos. 237-239 in the extension. g 

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I Aside from the colors of the Civil and Spanish 8 

M American wars ten flags represent distinct periods in M 

g the history of Massachusetts and the United States. 8 

M The "first flag of New England," under which H 

g our ancestors lived and fought in the earlier colonial H 

g and provincial periods, is reproduced, having been M 

g presented by the Massachusetts Society of Colonial M 

g Wars, March iq, iqo6. It is a white flag with the g 

g red cross of St. George and in the corner a pine tree, g 

g always a peculiar emblem of New England. = 

M On Evacuation Day, March 17, iqo6, Boston H 

g chapter. Sons of the American Revolution, presented g 

g a copy of the flag carried at the siege of Boston and M 

M hoisted by Gen. Israel Putnam on Prospect Hill, 5 

g Somerville, Jan. i, 1776, as the first flag of 

= the United Colonies. It bears the red 

g cross of St. George and white saltire of 



a gs 



g St. Andrew on a blue union.- General Putnam re- B 

g tained the crosses of the English ensign, but substi- g 

g tuted for the plain red field a field of red and white B 

g stripes, one for each of the thirteen colonies. Only the B 

g crosses of England and Scotland appear on it, for the H 

B red saltire of St. Patrick, now on the union jack, was M 

g not added until after the union with Ireland in 180 1. g 

g The "Bunker Hill" flag is also reproduced. This B 

g flag of the colonists has a blue field with the "first g 

g flag of New England" as a canton. It was a gift of M 

g the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Revo- g 

g lution, June 17, iqob. B 

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A copy of the "Pine Tree" flag was presented 
March q, 1Q07, by Mrs. Ida Louise Gibbs of Waltham 
as a memorial to her father, husband and son. It is 
a white flag with the pine tree in the 
centre, and above is the motto "An 
Appeal to Heaven." This was the naval 



Flags 



1 flag of Massachusetts and the first flag to fly over an g 

M American fleet — a fleet of schooners commissioned g 

1 by General Washington at the siege of Boston. g 

M It was the first naval flag of the United Colonies. = 

1 The "Betsy Ross" flag, a flag of 1781, an ensign g 

m of the American frigate "Peacock," a Mexican War g 

1 flag and Gen. U. S. Grant's garrison flag are described g 

H on pages qi-c)4- H 

B The colors of the commander-in-chief are displayed g 

S in the Governor's office. The State colors carried g 

B by the troops are a square flag, but the Governor's g 

B colors, usually carried behind him by a mounted color g 

I bearer, are triangular like a cavalry guidon. The g 

I field is white with golden yellow fringe, cord and tassels g 

g and on one side is the coat-of-arms of the Common- g 

B wealth, embroidered in colors (see pages qq and 100). g 

B The original charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony, by g 

B Charles I, granted the adventurers a seal which, as g 

I previously described, bore the device of an Indian g 

H standing between two pine trees. The significance g 

m of this design was a reminder of the compact between g 

B the king and the company that the object of the settle- g 

H ment, as expressed in the charter, was the elevation g 

B of the Indian and his conversion to Christianity. The g 

B Indian still retained on the coat-of-arms is, therefore, g 

B not a warrior, but a friendly Indian. He has no quiver. M 

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I THE STATE HOUSE | 

M The bow is in his right hand, and in his left hand is one | 

M arrow, point downward, signifying peace. The re- 1 

M verse of the colors bears on the same blue shield, not | 

m an Indian, but the historic pine tree of 

m New England. The flag of Massa- 

M chusetts which waves over State build- 



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ings ^ has, like the colors of the commander-in-chief, 
the arms of the Commonwealth on one side, and on 
the reverse the pine tree shield. ^ 

A Bible presented by Governor Butler is kept here ; 
also a volume of the General Statutes (i860) which 
has been transmitted by each governor to his succes- 
sor since Governor Banks first transferred it to Gover- 
nor Andrew. Another transmittendum is a gavel and 
box made from timbers of the frigate "Constitution"; 
still another is a gavel block of an Indian whetstone, 
and arrowheads, dug up on Cape Cod. The gavel 
and gavel block were presented by 
Governor Guild. The department is 
also custodian of photographs of former 
governors and councillors; a portrait of 



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I M Charles Bulfinch, ^ architect, from a water color draw- M 

I M ing by Votin, presented by Miss Ellen S. Bulfinch, of M 

I B Cambridge; a portrait of Denys de Berdt^ (which M 

I M originally hung in the Council Chamber, old State M 

1 M House), presented by Richard Gary, June 7, 1780; g 

I m the coat-of-arms of the De Berdt family, given to H 

I m Governor Bates by William E. Merrill; a State flag, | 

I M which was sent to King's Mountain, N. C, at the J 

I m request of the committee on the centennial celebra- M 

I m tion of the battle, Oct. 7, 1880. | 

i W ' Chapter 60. Acts of iqoq. 2 Chapter 229, Acts of iqo8. = 

% M ' See Appendix. ^ 

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I THE STATE HOUSE | 

I Senate Chamber m 

H Passing through the east corridor, the visitor enters | 

M the Senate chamber, formerly the House of Repre- g 

sentatives, with its galleries formed by Doric g 

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united by a circular cornice above, form in the angles 
four pendants to the dome. The pendants are adorned 
with emblems of commerce, agriculture, peace and war. 

Over the President's chair are the National and 
State flags, the gilded eagle already mentioned, hold- 
ing in its beak a large scroll with the inscription "God 
save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," and 
upon the north wall is the State coat-of-arms. A 
resolve of Feb. 24, 1847, appropriated money for the 
payment of expense incurred by the Sergeant-at-Arms 
to place in bold relief the "Massachusetts coat-of 
arms" over the Speaker's chair in the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and "for that purpose to fill up the middle 
upper windows," agreeable to an order of the House 
passed March 27, 1846. 

Suspended from the south wall are two muskets, 
— a King's arm, captured from the British by Capt. 
John Parker on the morning of April ig, 
1775, in the battle of Lexington, — being 
the first firearm taken from the enemy in 



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the war for independence, — and the firearm used by | 

I B Captain Parker in that battle, both bequeathed by | 

I m Rev. Theodore Parker (they were received Jan. 26, | 

' I = 1861, Governor Andrew delivering an address before | 

I M a joint convention of the Legislature^). | 

I J In the niches are busts of — | 

I M 1 Senate Journal of Jan. 26, 1861, and Boston Journal of = 

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In this room the House of Representatives held 
its sessions from Jan. ii, 1798, to Jan. 2, 1895, and 
the following day moved to the new chamber in the 
extension. Previous to 1867 there was no gallery in 
the front or rear of this hall. A balcony on each side, 
below the gallery, reached by a short flight of stairs 
from the floor, was used by members until 1 860. * 
The members sat in pews until the session of 1868, 
when chairs were occupied for the first time. These 
were arranged in straight lines on a level floor. New 
desks were also furnished for the Senators. The fol- 
lowing summer (1868) the floor of the 
House was raised and the seats arranged 
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and renewal of the Bulfinch State House, it having g | 

been decided that the Senate should occupy this g | 

chamber, the floor was again made level and the g I 

seats arranged in a circle for the convenience of the g i 

forty senators. The Senate held its first session here g [ 

Jan. 5, i8q8. On Feb. 18, 1895, the Senators moved M | 

to room No. 237, pending the alterations, but returned M I 

to the old chamber April 8 for the remainder of that | | 

session and the session of i8g6; on Jan. 6, 1897, they g | 

convened in the temporary chamber provided in the g | 

upper portion of Memorial Hall. g | 

Senate Reception Room ■ | 

The Senate Reception Room, formerly the Senate g i 

Chamber where its meetings were held from Jan. 1 1 , 1 798, g | 

to June 10, i8q6, ^ is of Ionic design, and occupies g | 

the east portion of the Bulfinch front. The State arms = | 

face the entrance. On the walls hang portraits of B | 

twenty-three governors. g | 

> I have been unable to ascertain when the balconies were g i 

added, but it must have been about 1852, as they appear on g | 

a plan of the "State House and enlargement," 1853-54, drawn ^ | 

by Gridley J. F. Bryant, architect. g i 

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ciety. Artist unknown. Purchased under 
chapter 297, Acts 1900. 

An original portrait given to Gen. William H. 
Sumner of Boston by Admiral Sir William Hall 
Gage, a son of Governor Gage, July 1, 1857. 
Bequeathed by General Sumner. Accepted 
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THE STATE HOU SE | 

The State owns a portrait of Rev. John Wheel- M 

Wright/ born in 1593, in Lincolnshire, England, arrived g 

in Boston, May 26, 1636, and died in g 

Salisbury, Massachusetts, Nov. 15, 1679. = 

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the canvas, almost concealed in the dark paint of the 
background; that inscription was partly lost when at 
some time the canvas was cut; it reads as follows: — 

" Acta t] is Suae 84 
Anno D]omini 1677" 

For some years prior to 1895, the portrait hung in 
one of the rooms of the Secretary of the Common- 
wealth, and still earlier in the Senate Chamber. 

Here is a musket used by Major John Buttrick 
at the North Bridge, Concord, April iq, 1775, — 
presented to the Commonwealth by his great-grand- 
children, James G. and Martha M. Buttrick of Lowell, 
April 16, IQ02; a drum beaten at the battle of Bunker 
Hill, June 17, 1775, by Thomas Scott; a Hessian hat, 
sword, gun and drum captured at the 
battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, 
— presented by Brigadier General John 



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i Stark, — and a letter of acknowledgment to General M 

1 Stark by Jeremiah Powell, President of the Council, g 

I dated December 5, 1777 ; this hat, sword and = 

I drum bear the Arms of Westphalia ; the drum has g 

I an iron frame and brass barrel. There is also a M 

I drum captured from the British in the same battle, — | 

i 1 Sec Appendix ; also " First Church of Christ in Quincy." g 

I by 13. M. Wilson, i8t)o. pp. 151 and 152 of Appendix. g 

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the gift of Robert L. Day of Melrose, January 28, 1904 ; 
a canteen, war of 181 2; a key to powder magazine on 
Captain's Island, Cambridge; a drum^ carried and 
beaten by Henry J . White, a drummer in Company I , 
6th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on 
their march through Baltimore, April iq, 1861; a 
musket carried by. Charles A. Taylor, a private in 
Company D of the same regiment, who fell on the 
march of that day. This latter musket, which had 
been fired and the ramrod lost probably in reloading, 
was found in an adjacent house and given to Wilson 
Post No. I, G. A. R., of Baltimore, who presented 
it to the 6th Regiment Association ; at 
Lowell, April iq, 1881, the association 
presented it to the Commonwealth through 



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I Governor John D. Long. The saddle, bridle and g 

I holsters were given to Maj. Gen. George C. Strong- M 

I by the citizens of Troy, N. Y., and were sent to the § 

I State House, Nov. 7, 1905, by his son, Wilson B. M 

I Strong of Georgetown, D. C. On Feb. 10, iqoq, M 

I Joseph H. Knox gave a drum that he used through M 

I the Wide-Awake period of the first Lincoln campaign, M, 

I and during his service in the 5th Massachusetts Vol- M 

I unteer Infantry; it bears a United States shield, an g 

I eagle and thirteen stars. M 

I The "Betsy Ross" flag was presented March q, | 

I iqo6, by Hannah Goddard Chapter, Daughters of S 

I the American Revolution, of Brooklinc, Mass. It g 

i 1 Presented to Governor Lonj;, Novcml'^cr 17. 1882. by ^ 

s Mr. White. g 

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has thirteen stripes, with a circle of thirteen stars in | 

the union, and is a copy of the first flag of the United M 

States — designed by George Washington, approved M 

by Benjamin Franklin and carried into execution by M 

Mrs. Ross. On June 14, 1777, Congress resolved g 

"that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen g 

stripes alternate red and white; that the M 
union be thirteen stars white in a blue . g 

field representing a new constellation." g 



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I The only change from the flag of the United Colonies H 

g was the substitution of the stars for the crosses. The M 

g Governor annually sets apart the fourteenth day of g 

g June as Flag Day. ^ g 

J The time-worn and weather-beaten bunting flag g 

g was made in 1781 for Jonathan Fowle of Boston. The g 

g thirteen stars are arranged in three horizontal rows, — g 

g four in the upper, five in the middle and four in the g 

g lower row. This flag was flown at one time over Fort g 

g Independence, in Boston Harbor, when Mr. Fowle's M 

g son, George M. Fowle, then a member of the Boston g 

g Rangers, was a part of the garrison of that post. g 

g George W. Fowle of Jamaica Plain, grandson of Jon- g 

g athan, presented it to the Commonwealth, Feb. 22, g 

g iqo6. g 

g The next in point of time is a copy of the flag of M 

g the American frigate "Peacock," which won a victory = 

g over the British sloop of war "Epervier," off the g 

g coast of Florida in 18 14. This was presented by the g 

M * Chapter 5. Resolves of iqii. g 

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M Society of the War of 1812, April 28, igo6, and is a M 

H reproduction of the one of fifteen stars and fifteen = 

H stripes, adopted Jan. 13, 1794, after the admission of M 

I Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. It has been H 

M called "The Star Spangled Banner." The familiar H 

B song bearing this title was inspired by the author, H 

M Francis Scott Key, witnessing the bom 

M bardment of Fort Mc Henry, at the en- 

g trance to Baltimore Harbor, Sept. 13, 18 14 



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I The Fort McHenry flag has the stars arranged in five I 

I indented parallel lines, thre,e stars in each horizontal I 

I line. It is in the Smithsonian Institution, Washing- I 

I ton, D. C. The American flag is now constructed I 

I under an act of April 4, 18 18, — "that from and after [ 

I the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United I 

I States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and \ 

I white; that the union have twenty stars, white in a I 

I blue field; that on the admission of every new state 1 

I into the Union, one star be added to the union of the | 

I flag; and that such addition shall take effect [ 

I on the fourth day of July next succeeding such 1 

I admission." [ 

I A regimental flag which Lieut. Gen. Winficld Scott, | 

I U. S. A., presented to the only Massachusetts regi- i 

I ment that fought in the Mexican War is also of much = 

I interest. This flag was one of four presented to meri- I 

I torious regiments in the service of the United States I 

I during that war. It is of green silk, embroidered, I 

I with the national coat-of-arms in the centre, while I 

I above are thirty stars representing the number of I 

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States then in the Union, and below are the words: 

"Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry." 

A United States garrison flag, which waved from the 

flagstaff at Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters, 

City Point, Virginia, in the Civil War, completes the 
number. It was given by General Grant 
to his staff officer, Col. Amos Webster, 
in April, 1865, after the surrender of the 



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Confederates at Appomattox Court House, and he in 
turn presented it to Roger Wolcott, Governor, through 
John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, Jan. 26, i8q8. 
The 'Tirst flag of New England," "Siege of Bos- 
ton," "Bunker Hill," "Pine Tree" and State flags 
are described on pages 79-8 1 . 

In the adjoining corridor there are group pictures 
of senators. The apartment directly to the north is the 
Senate reading room. It is finished in 
white mahogany, and the visitor, upon 
entering, will find the oil paintings and 
photographs that are designated upon 



Senate 

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I Office of the Secretary of the Common- g 

g wealth B 

S The great seal is kept in this office; also the g 

g official representation of the coat-of-arms, as drawn M 

M and emblazoned under the direction of the Secretary, = 

B William M. Olin, and adopted by the Legislature, M 

g June 14, i8q8. ^ M 

H The arms consist of a shield having a blue field g 

M or surface with an Indian thereon, dressed in a shirt M 

M and moccasins, holding in his right hand a bow, and M 

g in his left . hand an arrow, point downward, all of = 

g gold; and, in the upper corner of the field, 

g above his right arm, a silver star with five 

M points. The crest is a wreath of blue and 



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M gold, whereon, in gold, is a right arm, bent at the g 

I elbow, clothed and ruffled, with the hand grasping J 

M a broadsword. The motto is the second of two lines g 

= written about A. D. 1659 by Algernon Sydney, the g 

g English patriot, in the Book of Mottoes in the King's M 

M library at Copenhagen, Denmark. ^ " g 

M ... Manus haec inimica tyrannis g 

M Ense petit placidam .sub libertate quietem. g 

g This motto appears on the Magna Charta seal of M 

M 1775-80. g 

g The heraldry of the seal is in the Council records g 

g of December 13, 1780: — Sapphire, an Indian, J 

g 1 Revised Laws, Chapter 2. = 

g ■ 2 Great Seal of the Commonwealth. House No. 345. April, 1885; g 

M Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, Second Series, ^ 

g Vol, 11, pp. 39-41. •' Algernon Sydney,"' by Robert C. Winthrop. g 

^ before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Dec. 21. 1853. g 

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M dressed in his Shirt, Moggosins, belted proper, in = 

g his right hand a Bow, Topaz, in his left an Arrow, = 

its point towards the Base; of the M 

second, on the Dexter side of the g 

Indian's head, a Star, Pearl, for one S 



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of the United States of America. 

Crest. On a Wreath a Dexter Arm clothed and 
ruffled proper, grasping a Broad Sword, the Pummel 
and Hilt, Topaz, with this motto: — Ense petit 
placidam Sub Libertate Quietem. And around the 
Seal: — Sigillum Reipublicae Massachusettensis. 

Here too, safely encased, are the Colony charter 
of Massachusetts Bay, issued by Charles I, 1628; 
the Province charter, by William and 
Mary, 1692; explanatory charter, by 
George 1 1 ; the original manuscript of 



Charters 



the constitution of the Commonwealth and the 
amendments, together with an attested copy of the 
constitution, which was made in 1894, the original 
having become illegible in parts. 

In the archives division, fourth floor, are all the 
executive and legislative records of Massachusetts. 
Of especial interest are the military 
records of the Narragansett war, the 
French and Indian campaigns, the 



Archives 



I muster and payrolls of the Revolution. There g 

I is now a complete record-index from 17 10 to 1783, g 

M covering the years of the French and Indian and g 

m Revoluntary wars. Here are also preserved the M 

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M records of the Governor and Company of New M 

m England, which later became the records of the M 

J General Court; the original parchment 

M treaties made with the tribes of Eastern 

H Indians; the original depositions and ex- 



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aminations of persons accused of witchcraft; manu- 
script letters and papers of the revolutionary period; 
maps and plans of early grants of townships and to 
individuals by the Province and Commonwealth; the 
State surveys of 1794 and 1830. 

State Library — The Bradford History 

The State Library ^ will be found at the extreme 
north. It is the largest State reference library in 
the United States, having a collection of over 
350,000 volumes and pamphlets. The following 
are among the many things to be found on the 
shelves, — the laws and judicial decisions, congres- 
sional and public documents of the United States, the 
several States and Territories; the laws, 
judicial decisions and reports of Great 
Britain, her colonies and dependencies; 



State 
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1 the statute law of other civilized countries; the journals | 

1 and debates of the constitutional conventions; history, M 

1 biography, genealogy, town reports, maps and news- M 

i papers relating to New England, especially to Massa- g 

I chusetts as Colony, Province and Commonwealth; M 

3 books on government, social and political science, | 

1 finance, taxation, banking, agriculture, horticulture, M 

J 1 Established in 1826. g 

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pedagogy and education, penology, charities. State 
industries, civic development and betterment, and 
a good working library of reference books. Here is 
the "History of Plimoth Plantation," by Governor 
William Bradford, returned to the Commonwealth 
from the library of the Consistorial and Episcopal 
Court of London, by the Lord Bishop of London, 
through the efforts of George F. Hoar, United 
States Senator, and Thomas F. Bayard, Ambassador 
at the Court of St. James, and received in behalf 
of the Commonwealth by His Excellency Roger 
Wolcott, Governor, May 26, 1897; also a portrait 
of Charles Sumner, ^ United States Sen 
ator, by Henry Ulke, — presented to 
the Commonwealth in 1884, by James 



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I Wormley of Washington, D. C; and a gold medal | 

H offered to Mr. Sumner in July, 1871, by the govern- [ 

H ment of Hayti. in recognition of his successful | 

M efforts in 1862, to establish diplomatic relations be- | 

H tween the republic of Hayti and the United States of | 

= America, and for his equally successful efforts to | 

M prevent the annexation of the republic of Dominica | 

H to the United States, which medal, in conformity | 

M with a provision of the Federal Constitution, he de- | 

m clined to receive and which, at his suggestion, was | 

M presented to Massachusetts. ^ In the skylight form- | 

M ing a portion of the ceiling of the reading room | 

m are the memorable dates, 1620, 1775, 186 1. | 

J 1 See Appendix. | 

^ ' Placed in the State Library, by Chapter 5. Resolves of | 

m 1877. I 

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M A portrait bust of U. S. Senator Hoar, ^ by 1 

M Daniel C. French, sculptor, was pur- 

M chased by authority of chapter 62, 

I Resolves of iqo6, and unveiled Sep- 



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tember iq, iqo8, by Governor Guild in the presence 
of the Executive Council. 

(Inscription) 

GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR 

1826—1904 

SCHOLAR JURIST STATESMAN 

PURE IN LIFE 
INCORRUPTIBLE IN POLITICS 

CHAMPION OF FREEDOM 

FRIEND OF HUMANITY. 



House of Representatives — The Codfish 

Leaving the library and passing into the west 
corridor, the visitor enters the reading and writing 
rooms and post-office connected with the House of 
Representatives. Beyond are the 
ladies' reception room and Representa- 
tives' chamber, both finished in white 
mahogany. The entire wall of the 



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g House, from filoor to gallery, is panelled. The gallery I 

M is surmounted by ten Corinthian columns, and above \ 

M is the beautiful coved ceiling. ^ The coat-of-arms and \ 

M names of the counties are wrought in the glass; upon I 

g the frieze are the names of fifty-three noted men: — [ 

g 1 See Appendix. i 

^ 2 Frescoes by Frank Hill Smith. I 

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M John Carver and William Bradford, the first two governors of M 

^ Plymouth Colony. = 

^ John Endecott and John Winthrop, the first two governors of ^ 

^ Massachusetts Colony. g 

J Sir Henry Vane, governor of Massachusetts Colony in 1636; = 

M. beheaded in England in 1662 for his devotion to liberty. ^ 

M Timothy Pickering, adjutant-general and quartermaster-gen- ^ 

g eral on the staff of General Washington, in the Revolutionary war; g 

g later postmaster-general, secretary of war and secretary of state M 

= in Washington's cabinet, also senator from Massachusetts. = 

^ Henry Knox, major-general in the Revolutionary war and g 

^ secretary of war in Washington's cabinet. M. 

M Benjamin Lincoln, major-general in the Revolutionary war. = 

M John Adams, revolutionary statesman; first vice-president and g 

g second president of the United States. g 

M Nathan Dane, member of the Continental Congress of i 785-87, M 

5 and author of the ordinance of 1787 which prohibited slavery in J 

g the territories west of the Ohio River. g 

g Josiah Quincy, statesman and president of Harvard College. g 

g John Quincy Adams, statesman and sixth president of United g 

g States. ' g 

g Daniel Webster and Charles Sumner, statesmen and senators g 

g from Massachusetts. g 

g Henry Wilson, statesman, senator and vice-president of the g 

g United States. g 

= John A. Andrew, governor of Massachusetts during the Civil ^ 

g war. g 

g Rufus Choate. orator and senator from Massachusetts. g 

g Theophilus Parsons and Lemuel Shaw, chief justices of the g 

g Supreme Court of Massachusetts. g 

g Joseph Story, justice of the Supreme Court of the United g 

g States. g 

g Edward Everett, statesman, orator. United States senator and g 

g governor of Massachusetts. g 

g Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, anti-slavery g 

g orators. g 

g Horace Mann, educator. g 

g Samuel G. Howe, educator of the blind. g 

g Charles Allen, member of Congress, and chief justice of the g 

g Superior Court of Massachusetts. g 

= Charles Devens, major-general in the Civil war, attorney- g 

g general of the United States and justice of the Supreme Court of = 

g Massachusetts. g 

g William F. Bartlett. major-general in the Civil war. g 

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'M Rufus Putnam, brigadier general in the Revolutionary war, M 

= and founder of the Marietta Colony in Ohio. ^ 

^ Benjamin Franklin, revolutionary patriot and scientist. M 

^ Nathaniel I3owditch and Benjamin Peirce. mathematicians. ^ 

J Louis Agassiz. naturalist. g 

g William T. G. Morton, discoverer of the anaesthetic property ^ 

g in ether. g 

M Charles Bulfinch. architect. J 

M Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph. J 

M Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. M 

M George Bancroft. William H. Prescott, J. Lothrop Motley and M 

M Francis Parkman, historians. g 

^ Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and prose writer. Nathaniel M 

g Hawthorne, author. Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet and prose = 

M writer. William Cullen Bryant and Henry W. Longfellow, poets. g 

g James Russell Lowell, poet and prose writer. John Greenleaf B 

g Whittier. poet. g 

= John Singleton Copley, artist of ante-revolutionary period. B 

g William M. Hunt, artist. g 

g Jonathan Edwards. William Ellery Channing and Phillips M 

^ Brooks, preachers. g 

g All the foregoing were sons of Massachusetts, g 

g either by birth or adoption. g 

g The National and State colors are gracefully B 

g draped over the Speaker's chair; at the right is B 

g the United States shield; at the left, the State coat- B 

I of-arms. Opposite the desk, between the two H 

B central columns, is suspended the historic B 

g Codfish g 

g Wednesday, March 17, 1784, Mr. John Rowe g 

g "moved the House that leave might be given to g 

M hang up the representation of a Cod Fish in the B 

g room where the House sit, as a memorial of the | 

g importance of the Cod Fishery to the welfare of B 

g this Commonwealth as had been usual formerly." B 

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S Possibly an emblem hung in the old State, or M 

g Town, House, but as this structure was burned g 

Dec. Q, 1747, the codfish doubtless was M 

destroyed. The State House, in State g 

Street, was erected in 1748, and although = 



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J it is not known when the codfish was restored, in a I 

g bill of 1773, presented by Thomas Crafts, Jr., to the i 

M Province of Massachusetts Bay, the following item ap- | 

I pears, — "To painting Codfish ... 15 shillings." f 

M As moved by Mr. Rowe, the emblem was sus- i 

g pended in the House, remaining there until trans- | 

g ferred to the new State House, with the archives, | 

M in 1 798, and suspended in the House of Represen- 1 

g tatives. Just before its transfer, it received a fresh 1 

M coat of paint, as shown by a bill of Dec. 6, 1797, = 

g from Samuel Gore, — "Painting Codfish 12 s." | 

g On March 7, 1895, it was ordered "that the Sergeant- ^ 

g at-Arms be and is hereby directed to cause the I 

g immediate removal of the ancient representation of I 

M a codfish from its present position in the chamber 

g recently vacated by the House, and to cause it to be 

M suspended in a suitable place over the Speaker's I 

g chair in the new chamber." ^ A committee of fifteen, I 

I under the escort of John G. B. Adams, Sergeant-at- 

= Arms, proceeded to the old chamber, when the em- \ 

g blem was lowered, wrapped in an American flag, I 

g and borne to the House of Representatives by four ; 

g messengers. It was repaired and painted by Walter I 

H M. Brackett at an expense of $100.00,2 and on 

g 1 Chapter 65, Resolves of iSqj. | 

g » Auditor's Report iSqj. page 541. ; 

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g April 2q, 1895, was ordered to be hung opposite the 

M Speaker's chair. This was accomplished May 6, 

m 1895. The codfish is made of pine; it 

g measures 4 feet, 1 1 ^ inches long, and is 

M approximately 10 inches through the largest 

M part of the body. g 

m The portrait of Henry H. Childs, ^ lieutenant | 

g governor 1843, by Moses Wight, in the clerk's 3 

g office, committee on rules, was presented to the S 

g Commonwealth by Henry C. Merwin, Aug. 30, iqoi. g 

g Leading from the west corridor, beyond the g 

g House, are the offices of the Speaker and Clerk. g 

g In the private room of the former are photo- g 

g graphs of the gentlemen who have filled the g 

g Speaker's chair since 1780, and the list will be g 

g found on pages 108 and 109. g 

M Incident to the occupancy of the new House of J 

M Representatives in the Extension, and the preservation g 

g of the Bulfinch Front, the House chairs were sold in g 

g i8q6, 1897 and i8q8, the members of 1894 having the g 

g first opportunity to purchase; the Senate chairs were M 

g sold in 1897 and 1898, Senators of 1897 having first g 

g choice; and the chairs in the Council Chamber were g 

g sold in 1898 to Councillors of the preceding year. = 

^ Note. — The first General Court, which was held under the ^ 

M constitution, assembled in Boston, Wednesday, October 25. 1780. M 

M It held three sessions and was prorogued May iq, 1781. From g 

g 1 781 until 1832 the political year commenced on the last Wednes- g 

g day irt May. In 1832 the constitution was amended so that the g 

= political year should begin the first Wednesday in January. M 

M * See Appendix. M 

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Wolcott and the Men of Massachusetts 
in the Spanish American War 

The memorial to Roger Wolcott, late Governor, 
and the men of Massachusetts who served in the war 
with Spain, — by Daniel Chester French, sculptor, 
and Henry Bacon, architect, — is on the third floor, 
opposite the main staircase. It was dedicated Dec. 
31, iqo6, in the presence of Mrs. Wolcott, members 
of her family, the staff of the late Governor, veterans 
of the Spanish American War, and many other friends. 
The address of presentation was made by His Honor 
Eben S. Draper, Lieutenant Governor; 
then the curtains were drawn aside by a 
detail from Roger Wolcott Camp, No. 26, 



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\ L. S. W. v., and after an address by Capt. Frederick A. g 

1 Walker, Commander-in-Chief of that organization, M 

I His Excellency Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor, accepted M 

I the memorial in behalf of the Commonwealth. It | 

I consists of a bronze portrait statue of heroic size, the M 

i figure of the Governor being seated. The chair is a g 

I representation of the Governor's chair in the Council g 

I Chamber. The statue is mounted upon a pedestal g 

I of Tennessee marble against a Siena marble back- g 

I ground, and is flanked on either side by Tennessee M 

I marble pilasters, upon which are sculptured figures | 

I representing the soldier and sailor of the Spanish g 

I American War. g 

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B (Inscription on the Pedestal) B | 

J ROGER WOLCOTT J | 

J BORN JULY 13-1847 DIED DECEMBER 21-1900 M I 

J GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS g | 

I 1897-1898 AND 1899 | | 

J (Inscription, on the Frieze) M | 

g ERECTED WITH OFFERINGS FROM THOUSANDS OP J I 

= MASSACHUSETTS PEOPLE § | 

J TO EXPRESS THEIR LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR GOVERNOR M I 

M WOLCOTT M I 

M TO KEEP BEFORE FUTURE GENERATIONS HIS HIGH EXAMPLE OP = | 

M CIVIC VIRTUE g I 

J AND TO COMMEMORATE THE MEN OF MASSACHUSETTS ^ | 

g WHO SERVED IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898 M | 

M The corridors between the House of Repre- | I 

M sentatives and department of the Secretary of the g | 

M Commonwealth are lighted mainly from a stained- B | 

M glass window. In the arched panels of the ceiling^ g I 

g appear the names of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, g | 

g Joseph Warren and James Otis, patriot leaders in g | 

g the Revolution. These panels are also adorned g | 

g with emblems of education, science, commerce, g | 

g agriculture, machinery, war, peace. g f 

g In General g | 

g The first House of Representatives met May 14, g I 

g 1634. For some years the Assistants and Deputies g | 

= sat together in one room and voted together, the g | 

g ' Frescoes by Frank Hil! Smith. g | 

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majority of the whole deciding a vote; but in 1644 
the branches separated and the House of Deputies, 
for the first time sitting and acting 
apart from the Assistants, appointed a 
Doorkeeper. From that year to the 
present the line has not been broken, 
as the following list will show: — 



Sergeant- 

at-Arms 

Department 



1644-51. 

1651-59. 

1659-93. 

1693-1713 

J713-15. 

1715-26. 

1726-48. 

1748-50. 

1750-86, 

1774-78. 

1774. • 

1786-1835 

1835-59. 

1859-75. 

1875-86. 

1886-1900, 

iqoo, . 

1901- 1904 
I 904- I 9 I o 
1910 — 



Samuel Greene. Doorkeeper. = | 

Edward Micheson. Messenger. M I 

John Marshall. Messenger. g | 

James Maxwell. Doorkeeper and Messenger. g | 

Samuel Maxwell. Doorkeeper. g | 

John Flagg. Doorkeeper. = | 

Richard Hubbard. Doorkeeper. M | 

Abraham Belknap. Doorkeeper. g i 

William Baker, Doorkeeper and Messenger. g i 

(Provincial Congress), Jeremiah Hunt. Door- g | 

keeper. M I 

(At Cambridge) (Provincial Congress). "Mr. Dar- g | 

ling." Doorkeeper. g | 

Jacob Kuhn.i Messenger. g | 

Benjamin Stevens. Sergeant-at-Arms. g | 

John Morrissey. Sergeant-at-Arms. g | 

Oreb F. Mitchell. Sergeant-at-Arms. g i 

(October 19), John G. B. Adams. ^ Sergeant-at- g | 

Arms. M i 

(October 24)-i90i (January 2). Charles G. Davis, g | 

Acting Sergeant-at-Arms. g | 

Charles G. Davis. Sergeant-at-Arms. g | 

David T. Remington. 1 Sergeant-at-Arms. g | 

Thomas F. Pedrick.i Sergeant-at-Arms. g | 



The pay of Samuel Greene was "2s p day, 
with diett &l lodginge." Greene and Edward 
Micheson served under the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony, when the Court met in the old First Church 

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M on Washington Street; John Marshall served under = 

S the Province, and was custodian of the first Town 1 

g House (built 1657); James Maxwell and Richard | 

g Hubbard were messengers respectively when the first 1 

= and second Town Houses were burned ( 1 7 1 1 and 1 

M 1 747) ; Abraham Belknap became custodian of the 1 

g present "'old State House "^ (built 1748); William 1 

g Baker was evidently custodian of the buildng during 1 

I the siege of Boston; Jacob Kuhn served in the | 

J State Street building, as well as the Bulfinch State | 

m House. I 

M March 2, 1798, the agents were directed to build 1 

B a house for the Messenger. It was situated on the | 

M easterly side of Hancock Street, No. 46, not far | 

g below the present Hancock Street entrance of the | 

g State House, and Mr. Kuhn lived in it for many | 

g years. Benjamin Stevens also resided there until | 

= 1848, but the property having been sold the pre- | 

g vious year to the water commissioners of the city | 

g of Boston, the Commonwealth purchased the estate | 

g No. 12 Hancock Street, under a resolve of April 13, | 

g 1847, and this was kept as the residence of the | 

g Sergeant-at-Arms until ordered sold, April 6, iS^q. | 

g Portraits of six of the officers who served between | 

g 1786 and I QIC, and the present incumbent, may be | 

= found in the Sergeant-at-Arms' department. The | 

g crayon of Benjamin Stevens was given by Charles | 

M Edward Stevens. The oil paintings of John G. B. | 

g 1 The old State House was built within the walls of its 1 

^ predecessor, erected in 1713. and on the site of the Town House = 

g of 1657. i 

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Adams, Darius Cobb, artist, of David T. Remington 
and Thomas F. Pedrick, John L. Findlay, artist, 
were presented by the Sergeant-at-Arms' appointees, 
May 6, iqoi, June ii, iqo6, and June 13, iqio, 
respectively. 

Those who are interested in heating and lighting 
should visit the engine and dynamo rooms. A few 
words only are necessary to show the progress in 
this department. There were fireplaces originally 
in the Bulfinch building, wood being used entirely 
for fuel. Later on came stoves and open grates, 
then hot-air furnaces. A hot-water heating appara- 
tus was installed in the Bryant addition, 
and went into operation in January, 1855; 
but it was not until the alterations of 
1 867-68 that the entire State House was 



Heating 

and 

Lighting 



B heated by steam. The central avenue leading from 

= Beacon Street to the State House, Doric Hall, 

g the House of Representatives, and certain passage- 

m ways were first lighted by gas in 1849^; the Senate, 

I in 1 85 1. 2 The House was wired for electricity in 

B 1883; the Senate, a few years later; and when the 

B extension was built, an electric plant with 9,500 

m incandescent lights was installed; the capacity has 

B since been increased to about 12,000 lamps. In 

H iqo2 a coal pocket was built under the park. It 

m is 106' long, 76' wide and iq' 6" high in the centre. 

M Basing the cubic contents of a ton of coal at 32 cubic 

I .feet, the pocket will contain 4,500 tons. There are 

M iChapter 65, Resolves of 1849. 2 Chapter 67. Resolves of 185 1 . 

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now eleven passenger elevators in the building; the M 

first two were installed in 1885. g 

There are two interesting iron chests in the private M 

office of the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. They H 

were discovered in iqoo by former Treasurer Edward g 

S. Bradford, when he was rearranging the basement g 

storeroom of his department. The smaller one was M 

open and empty. The larger was locked, and there S 

was a blank escutcheon, with guard, on the front. g 

Examination disclosed a hidden spring, for a portion 5 

of the iron belting on the top yielded to pressure and g 

snapped back, revealing the true keyhole. From g 
under the cover — the keyhole being on 
the top of the chest — bolts slip out at 
intervals along the front and sides, catch- 



Treasury 
Chests 



B ing securely beneath the iron edges of the chest; projec- g 

M tions also fit underneath the rear edge, thus pro- H 

B tecting that side of the box; the iron sheathing, g 

g which protects the lock system, on the inside of the g 

g cover, is decorated, two crowns being the most promi- g 

g nent part of the work. The smaller chest is 2' 8" g 

g long, ib}4" wide and i6>^" deep; the larger is 3' g 

B long, I ' 6" wide and 20" deep. The larger chest con- g 

g tains a covered box, with lock and key, all of iron, g 

g which was presumably used for specie. This chest g 

g also protected an old heavy wooden box, which con- g 

g tained bonds, notes, Continental money, consolidated g 

M army notes and bills of exchange, ranging from 1747 M 

g to 1817,^ and as many of them had not been can- g 

g 1 Senate files No. 8458. Jan. iq. 1828, report of Committee as to g 

^ certain articles in the Treasury. g 

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celled, Treasurer Bradford resealed the box and g 

placed it in the Treasury vault. Each of these chests g 

has its key; also heavy wrought iron handles on the M 

ends, with two hasps, for padlocks, on the front; the B 

rust of years was removed by sandblast, and the ^ur- g 

faces lacquered. It is not known how long ago these M 

relics first came into the possession of the State, but M 

perhaps they were removed from the old State House g 

when the Bulfinch State House was first occupied in g 

i/qS, and in the early days they undoubtedly held g 

the money and valuable papers of the Treasury. | 

The remaining portions of the building are de- g 

voted to departments and committee rooms. In one = 

of the latter — Senate committee on street railways, J 

No. 434 — is a skylight on which have been painted M 

the names of Adams, Pickering, Webster, | 

Cabot, Strong, Bates, Davis, Silsbee, Otis, g 

Varnum, Mason, Hoar, Lodge, Dawes, g 

Foster, Dexter, Rockwell, Everett, Sum- g 



United 
States 
Senators 



m ner, Wilson, Boutwell, Goodhue, Washburn, Sedgwick, g 

g Rantoul, Winthrop, Choate, Dalton, Mills, Mellen, g 

g Ashmun, Gore, Lloyd, — United States Senators from g 

g Massachusetts. The door of this room contains glass g 

g panels with paintings of the "Mayflower, Plymouth, g 

I December XXI, MDCXX" and "Arbella, Salem, g 

I June XII, MDCXXX." | 

g Several departments have portraits of the gentle- g 

g men who have presided over their offices, — Agricul- g 

B ture. Attorney General, Auditor, District Police, g 

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I H Education, Grand Army, Insurance, Bureau of Sta- m 

1 m tistics, Surgeon General, Tax Commissioner and ( 

f g Treasurer. M 

I M The National and State flags carried by the Massa- | 

I M chusetts veterans of the Civil War during the fiftieth g 

I B anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, 

I = July I to 4, iqi3, were placed in the 

I M custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms Sept. 3, 

1 B IQ13. by vote of the Governor and Council, and B 

I M will be preserved in the Senate Reception Room. M 

I M The Commonwealth has in its possession, as a g 

I B loan from the United States government, a smooth g 

I H bore, bronze gun of 8.5 caliber, weighing 6,400 B 

I B pounds, and inscribed "Conde De Ezpeleta, 1808. g 

I B No. 84q6-Sevilla 11 De Julio De 1848. Bronces M 

I g Refundidos." It is an old Spanish piece, received g 

I m at the New York Navy Yard Oct. 25, i8qq, from g 

I g Cuba, by U. S. Army Transport "McPherson". g 

I M The loan was acknowledged by His Excellency John g 

I g L. Bates, Governor; the gun was received by the g 

I M Sergeant-at-Arms in February, iqo3. M 

I g Three other mementoes are in the care of the g 

i g Sergeant-at-Arms. A gavel presented to the House g 

I = of Representatives by Hon. John D. Long, when g 

I I Secretary of the Navy; the gavel head is made of M 

I g wood from the cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewey's g 

I g flagship at the battle of Manila; the handle is of wood g 

I M from the rail of the San Dovat, a Spanish gunboat g 

I B captured off the coast of Cuba during the Spanish M 

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M American war; the gavel was first used at the opening g 

J session of the twentieth century by Speaker James g 

M ' J. Myers. Then there is a State flag, presented by = 

M Miss Fanny Brooks, of Milton, and accepted by the H 

M Executive Council on March 24, 1915; also a hickory g 

M cane, presented by Milton Robinson, as a tribute to g 

S Col. Robert Gould Shaw, and the 54th Regiment of g 

M Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Robinson was H 

M a Kentucky slave, who escaped to Indiana; he came g 

g to Boston, enlisted and served throughout the war. g 

B The gift was accepted by His Excellency Eben S. g 

g Draper, Governor, on June 30, iqio. Mr. Robinson g 

g lived at the Soldiers' Home, Lafayette, Indiana, g 

g which stands near the battlefield of Tippecanoe, and g 

g from a grove on the edge of that battlefield he pro- g 

g cured the hickory from which the cane was made, g 

g and adorned it with its own twigs, using the colors g 

g red, white and blue; it bears a carved National flag, g 

g and the initial of his company, "F", with the number g 

m of the regiment. g 

M The State coat-of-arms ornaments the balconies of M 

g the east and west wings, and the Derne Street gate. g 

g The coat-of-arms of Boston, England, is on the g 

g Bowdoin Street gate; its heraldry is: — Sable. — Three g 

g ducal coronets in pale, or. Crest. — On a woolpack, a g 

g ram couchant, or. Supporters. — Two mermaids proper, g 

g ducally crowned, or g 

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APPENDIX 

J' 

JOHN G. B. ADAMS 

Captain Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteer Infantry, Civil war; Messenger to 
Electoral College, 1868; inspector, Boston Cus- 
tom House, 1877-78; postmaster at Lynn, 1878 
— Dec. 15, 1884 (resigned); deputy super- 
intendent Massachusetts Reformatory, 1885; 
sergeant-at-arms Massachusetts Legislature, 
1886-Oct. iq, iqoo; commander-in-chief G. A, 
R., 1893-94. 

SAMUEL ADAMS 

Clerk House of Representatives; Colonial Leg- 
islature, 1765-74; Continental Congress, 1774- 
81; signer Declaration of Independence; as- 
sisted in framing State Constitution, 1780; 
president Senate, 1781-86, 1787-88; Council; 
Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788; lieu- 
tenant governor, 1789-94; governor, i794-<)7. 

OLIVER AMES 

Senate, 1880; lieutenant governor, 1883-87; 
governor, 1887-90. 

JOHN A. ANDREW 

House of Representatives, 1858; Republican 
National Convention, i860; "war governor" 
of Massachusetts, 1861-66. 

NATHANIEL P. BANKS 

House of Representatives, 1849-52; speaker, 
1 85 1, 52; Senate, 1874; president State Consti- 
tutional Convention, 1853; Congress, 1853-57, 
1865-73, 1875-77, 1889-91; speaker National 
House of Representatives, 1855-57; governor, 
1858-61; major-general, Civil war; U. S. mar- 
shal, 1879-88; presidential elector, 1892. 



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I WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT | 

I Captain Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer In- M 

I fantry, Civil war, 1861; colonel Forty-ninth M 

i Infantry, 1862; colonel Fifty-seventh Infantry, M 

I 1863; brigadier general, 1864; brevet major- g 

I general, 1865. g 

I JOHN L. BATES | 

1 Boston Common Council, i8qi, qi; House of g 

1 Representatives, 1 894-99; speaker, 1897, 98, B 

I 99; lieutenant governor, 1900-03; governor, | 

i 1Q03, 04. M 

j GEORGE S. BOUTWELL | 

1 House of Representatives, 1842-44, 1847-50; m 

1 bank commissioner, 1849-50; governor, 1851, g 

1 52; State Constitutional Convention, 1853; Re- g 

i publican National Convention, i860; secretary g 

i Board of Education, 1855-61; commissioner in- g 

1 temal revenue, 1862, 63; Congress, 1863-69; = 

1 secretary of treasury, 1869-73; U. S. Senate, g 

1 1873-77; codified Statutes at large, 1877; g 

i counsel for United States before French and g 

1 American Claims Commission, 1 880. g 

I JAMES BOWDOIN | 

1 General Court, 1753-56, 1769; Council, 1756, g 

1 1769, - 1770-74; president Provisional Council, g 

1 1775; presided over State Constitutional Con- g 

1 vention, 1780; governor, 1785-87; Massachu- g 

1 setts Ratifying Convention, 1788. M 

I JOHN Q. A. BRACKETT | 

1 Boston Common Council, 1873-76, president, g 

1 1876; judge advocate general. First Brigade, g 

H M. V. M., 1874; House of Representatives, g 

1 1877-81, 1884-86; speaker, 1885, 86; lieu- M 

1 tenant governor, 1887-90; governor, 1890. g 

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I I SIMON BRADSTREET | 

I g Assistant judge first court in the Colony, 1630; 1 

f B agent and secretary of Massachusetts; gover- 1 

I g nor's assistant and commissioner to the United 1 

I g Colonies, 1650; agent for Colonies in England, 1 

I M 1662; deputy governor, 1678-79; governor, 1 

I M 1679-86; i68q-q2. g 

I I GEORGE N. BR I GGS | 

I g Register of deeds, 1824-31; Congress, 1831- 1 

I g 43; governor, 1844-51; State Constitutional 1 

I g Convention, 1853; justice Court of Common 1 

I g Pleas, 1853-59. g 

I I JOHN BROOKS | 

I g Colonel in Revolutionary army; major-general g 

I g Massachusetts Militia; House of Representa- g 

I g tives; Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, g 

I M 1788; Senate; Council; marshal and inspector g 

I g of revenue, 1795; adjutant-general, 181 2-1 5; g 

I g governor, 1816-23. g 

I I CHARLES BULFINCH • | 

I g Architect. (See page 37.) J 

I I ALEXANDER H. BULLOCK | 

I M House of Representatives, 1845-48, 1861-65, g 

I M speaker, 1862-65; Senate, 1849; commissioner g 

f g of insolvency, 1853-56; judge of insolvency, g 

i = 1856-58; mayor of Worcester, 1859; governor, g 

f g 1866-69. g 

I I ANSON BURLINGAME | 

I g Senate, 1852; member of convention for revis- H 

I g ing State Constitution, 1853; Representative in g 

I g Congress, 1855-61; minister to China, 1861-67, g 

I g when he framed articles supplementary to the g 

I M treaty of 1858, which was China's first formal g 

f m recognition of international law, and was known g 

I g as the Burlingame treaty; concluded in behalf g 

I g of China, treaties with LInited States, England, g 

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I WILLIAM BURNET | 

B Governor of New York and New Jersey, 1720- g 

g 28; governor of Massachusetts, 1728-29; ap- J 

g pointed governor of New Hampshire, 1 730. g 

I BENJAMIN F. BUTLER | 

g House of Representatives and State Constitu- M 

M tional Convention, 1853; Senate, 1859; Demo- g 

g cratic National Convention, i860; major-general g 

g in the Civil war; member of Congress 1867- g 

M 75, 1877-79; governor, 1883. g 

I HENRY H. CHILDS | 

M House of Representatives, 18 16 and 1827; State m 

g Constitutional convention, 1820; lieutenant gov- g 

g ernor, 1843. g 

I WILLIAM CLAFLIN | 

g House of Representatives, 1849-53; Senate, g 

g 1860,61; president of Senate, 1861 ; Republican g 

g National Executive Committee, 1864-72; chair- g 

g man, 1868-72; lieutenant governor, i866-6q; g 

g governor, 1869-72; Congress, 1877-81. M 

I JOHN H. CLIFFORD | 

= House of Representatives, 1835; district attorney, M 

g 1839-49; Senate, 1845; attorney-general, 1849- g 

g 53, 1854-58; governor, 1853; president Senate, g 

g 1862. g 

I DAVID COBB I 

S Provincial Congress, 1775; officer of continental | 

M army; brevet brigadier general, 1783; judge g 

g Court of Common Pleas, 1784-96; speaker g 

g House of Representatives, 1789-93; Congress, g 

g 1793-95; Senate, eastern district of Maine; g 

g president Senate, 1801-05; chief justice Han- g 

g cock County (Maine) Court of Common Pleas, g 

g 1803-09; lieutenant governor, 1809-10; Board g 

g of Military Defence, 1812; Council, 1808-10, g 



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WINTHROP MURRAY CRANE | 

Republican National Convention and National g 

Committee, iSqi, i8q6, 1904; lieutenant gov- B 

ernor, 1897-1900; governor, iqoo, 01, 02; B 

United States senator, 1 904 — . g 

JOHN DAVIS I 

Congress, 1825-34; governor, 1834, 35, 41, B 

42; U. S. Senate, 1835-41, 1845-53. B 

DENYS DE BERDT | 

A merchant of London engaged in American B 

trade; agent for the colonies of Massachusetts B 

and Delaware at the court of Great Britain B 

during the passage and repeal of the Stamp Act. B 

CHARLES DEVENS | 

Senate, 1848,49; U. S. Marshal, 1849-53; briga- = 

dier general and brevet major-general in Civil B 

war; U. S. attorney-general, 1877-81; justice | 

Supreme Judicial Court, 1873-77, 1881-91. B 

WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS | 

Brockton Common Council, 1882, 83, 91; mayor, B 

1890; House of Representatives, 1883, 84; B 

Democratic National Convention, 1884, 92, 96, B 

1904; National (gold) Democratic Convention, B 

1896; Senate, 1886; governor, 1905. = 

REV. EDMUND DOWSE | 

Senate, 1869, 70; chaplain of Senate, 1880- = 

January 14, 1904. M 

EBEN S. DRAPER | 

Republican National Convention, 1896; presi- B 

dent Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association, B 

during Spanish-American war; lieutenant gov- B 

ernor, 1906,07,08; governor, 1909, 10. M 

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JOSEPH DUDLEY 

Deputy, 1673-75; commissioner to treat with 
Narragansett Indians, 1675; assistant, 1676- 
85; agent in England, 1682; president of 
Colony, May 25-Dec. 20, 1686; Council, 1686; 
appointed chief justice Massachusetts Superior 
Court, 1687; chief justice of New York, i6qo- 
Q3; governor, 1702-15. 

WILLIAM DUMMER 

Lieutenant governor, 1716-30; acting governor, 
1722-28, 1729-30; Council, 1738-39. 

JOHN ENDECOTT 

Governor, 1629-30, 1644-45, 1649-50, 1651-54, 
1655-65; Court of Assistants, 1630-34; con- 
ducted expedition against Pequot Indians, 1636; 
deputy governor, 1641-44, 1650-51, 1654-55; 
major-general colonial troops, 1645. 

WILLIAM EUSTIS 

Revolutionary army; with expedition against 
insurgents in Shay's rebellion, 1786-87; House 
of Representatives, 1788-94; Council two years; 
Congress, 1801-05, 1820-23; secretary of war, 
1809-12; U. S. minister to Holland, 181 5-18; 
governor, 1823-25. 

EDWARD EVERETT 

Congress, 1825-35; governor, 1836-40; minister 
to England, 1841-45; U. S. secretary of state, 
1852-53; U. S. Senate, 1853-54. 

EUGENE N. FOSS 

Congress, 1910; governor, 191 1, 191 2-, 1913- 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 

Chosen clerk of Pennsylvania Assembly in 1736 
and postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737; post- 
master-general, 1753-54; colonial agent of Penn- 
sylvania in England, 1757-62, 1764-75; speaker 
of assembly; agent for New Jersey, Georgia 
and Massachusetts in Great Britain ; Continental 



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I M Congress, 1775-76; president of Pennsylvania g 

I I Constitutional Convention, 1776; one of com- M 

I J mittee of five to frame Declaration of Independ- | 

I J ence; envoy from colonies to France, 1776; with H 

I J Arthur Lee and Silas Deane concluded treaty m 

I M with France, signed Feb. 6, 1778; commissioned g 

I M February, 177Q, first U. S. minister plenipoten- m 

I M tiary at the French Court; with John Adams M 

I M and John Jay concluded with England the treaty M 

I M of Paris, Sept. 3, 1783; Council of Pennsylvania, S 

I M 1785; president of Pennsylvania, 1786, 87, 88; M 

I M Federal Constitutional Convention, May, 1787. S 

I I THOMAS GAGE | 

I g Governor of Montreal, 1760; commander-in- g 

I M chief of British forces in North America, 1763- g 

I M 7^, 1775; governor, 1774; returned to England g 

I g in 1775; general, 1783. g 

I I HENRY J. GARDNER | 

I g Boston Common Council, 1850-54; House of g 

I g Representatives, 1851, 52; State Constitutional g 

I g Convention, 1853; governor, 1855-58. g 

I I WILLIAM GASTON | 

I M City solicitor of Roxbury five years ; mayor, = 

I M 1861-62; mayor of Boston, 1871-72; House of g 

I g Representatives, 1853, 54, 56; Senate, 1868; g 

I g governor, 1875. M 

I I ELBRIDGE GERRY | 

I g Assembly of Massachusetts Bay, 1772, 73; g 

I g Provincial Congress, 1774, 75; Continental g 

I g Congress, 1777-80, 1783-85; House of Rep- g 

I g resentatives, 1785; U. S. Constitutional Con- g 

I g vention, 1 787 ; Congress, 1 789-93 ; commissioner g 

I g to France, 1797-98; governor, 1810-12; vice- g 

I g president U. S. 1813-14. g 

I I CHRISTOPHER GORE | 

I g Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788; U.S. g 

I g district attorney, 1789-96; commissioner to g 

I g settle American spoliation claims against Eng- g 

I g land, 1796-1804; charge d'affaires, 1803-04; g 

I g governor, 1809^10; U. S. Senate, 1813-16; g 

I g presidental elector, 1817. g 

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i FREDERIC T. GREENHALGE 1 j 

B Lowell Common Council, 1868, 6q; school = | 

B committee, 1871-73; justice police court, 1874- g | 

M 84; commissioner of insolvency and mayor, M I 

M 1880-81; city solicitor, 1888; House of Repre- g | 

m sentatives, 1885; Congress, i88q-qi; governor, g | 

= i8q4-March 5, i8q6. g | 

I CURTIS GUILD, Jr. | | 

M First Battalion Cavalry, A, Nov. i, i8qi; | | 

I private, corporal; second lieutenant. May 7, g | 

g 1895; brigadier general, inspector general g | 

I Rifle Practice, Massachusetts, Jan. 7, 1897; g | 

g first lieutenant, adjutant. Sixth Regiment, g | 

g Apr. 22, i8q8; resigned. Mar. 3, iSqq; major- g | 

g general retired, Jan. 7, iQoq; lieutenant- g | 

M colonel, inspector general, inspector general's g | 

g department. Seventh Army Corps, U. S. Vol- g [ 

g unteers. May q, i8q8; resigned Feb. 23, i8qq; g f 

M chairman Republican State Convention, i8q5; g | 

g Republican National Convention, i8q6; lieuten- g | 

g ant governor, iqo3, 04, 05; governor, iqo6, g | 

g 07, 08; ambassador to the Mexican Centennial, g | 

= iqio; ambassador to Russia, iqii-iqi3. g | 

I JOHN HANCOCK | | 

g Selectman of Boston; General Assembly of g | 

g Province, 1766-72; Council; president Pro- g | 

g vincial Congress, 1774, 75', Continental Con- g | 

g gress, 1775-80; and its president, 1775-77', g I 

g first signer of Declaration of Independence; g | 

g major-general Massachusetts militia, 1776; g | 

g Speaker, i77q, 80; State Constitutional Conven- g I 

g tion, 1780; president Massachusetts Ratifying g | 

g Convention, 1788; first governor of Massachu- g | 

g setts under the State Constitution, 1780-85; g | 

g also i787-q3. g | 

I GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR | | 

g House of Representatives, 1852; Senate, 1857; g | 

g city solicitor of Worcester, i860; Congress, g I 

g i86q-77; U. S. Senate, 1 877-1 qo4; electoral g | 

g commission, 1876; presided over State Repub- g | 

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lican Convention, 1871, 77, 82, 85; Republican 
National Convention, 1876, 80, 84, 88, presiding 
over convention of 1 880. 

JOSEPH HOOKER 

Captain First U. S. Artillery, 1842; Mexican 
war; brevet captain, 1846; brevet major and 
brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1847; brigadier gen- 
eral U. S. Volunteers, 1861, and major-general. 
May 5, 1862; brigadier general U. S. Armyi 
Sept. 20, 1862; commander Army of the Poto- 
mac, 1863; brevet major-general U. S. Army, 
1865; mustered out as major-general U. S. 
Volunteers, 1866; retired as major-general U. S 
Army, 1868. 

THOMAS HUTCHINSON 

Selectman of Boston, 1737; House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1737-38, 1740-4Q; speaker, 1746- 
48; commissioner to adjust boundary between 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1740; to 
treat with Indians at Casco Bay, 1749; Council, 
I74Q; justice Court of Common Pleas; commis- 
sioner to Albany Congress, 1754; lieutenant 
governor, 1758-71; acting governor, 1760, 
1 7^Ci-7 1 ; chief justice Superior Court of Judi- 
cature, 1761-69; governor, 1771-74. 

JACOB KUHN 

Assistant messenger to the General Court, 1781- 
86; messenger, 1786- 183 5; elected messenger 
of convention that ratified Federal Constitution, 
Jan. Q, 1788. 

MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE (MARIE JEAN PAUL 
ROCH IVES GILBERT MOTIER) 

Espoused cause of Americans at outbreak of 
Revolution; appointed major-general in Conti- 
nental Army, July 31, 1777. 

JOHN LEVERETT 

With expedition against Narragansetts ; deputy 
in General Court, 1651-53, 1663-65; speaker 
portion of the time; colonial agent in England, 



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1655-62; Council, 1665-71 ; major-general colonial M 

militia, 1663-73; deputy governor, 1671-73; % 

acting governor, 1672; governor, 1673-79; justice = 

Superior Court of Judicature, 1702-08. M 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 

Appointed postmaster of New Salem, 111., 1833; | 

House of Representatives, 1834-35; elector on | 

Whig ticket when Gen. William Henry Harri- j 

son was candidate for president; Congress, M 

1846, serving one term; sixteenth president g 

u. s., 1861-Aprii 15, 1865. i 

LEVI LINCOLN | 

Senate, 181 2-1 3; House of Representatives, J 

1 814-18, 1820-23; speaker, 1822-23; Conven- | 

tion to revise State Constitution, 1820; lieu- m 

tenant governor, 1823-24; justice Supreme | 

Judicial Court, 1824-25; governor, 1825-34; g 

Congress, 1836-41; collector port of Boston, g 

1841-43; Senate, 1844, 45; president Senate, g 

1845; presided over Electoral College, 1848; g 

also elector, 1823 and 1864. g 

JOHN D. LONG | 

House of Representatives, 1875-78; speaker, g 

1876, 77, 78; lieutenant governor, 1879; gov- g 

ernor, 1880-83; Congress, 1883-89; secretary g 

of the navy, i8c)7-May i, 1902 (resigned). g 

HORACE MANN | 

House of Representatives, 1827-33; Senate, g 

1833-37; president Senate, 1836, 37; secre- g 

tary Board of Education, 1837-48; Congress, g 

1848-53. I 

SAMUEL WALKER McCALL | 

House of Representatives, 1888, 89, 92; Repub- 1 

I lican National Convention, 1888, 1900; Congress, | 

I 1893-1913; governor, 1916, 17. m 

I 128 g 

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MARCUS MORTON 

Clerk Senate, 1 8 1 1 - 1 2 ; Congress, 1 8 1 7-2 1 ; 
Council, 1823; lieutenant governor, 1824, 25 
(acting governor); justice Supreme Judicial 
Court, 1825-40; governor, 1840, 43; collector 
port of Boston, 1845-48; State Constitutional 
Convention, 1853; House of Representatives 
1858. 

THOMAS F. PEDRICK 

Messenger, House of Representatives, 1884- 
iQoi; assistant doorkeeper, iqoi-iqo4; door- 
keeper, iQ04-iqio; sergeant-at-arms, Massa- 
chusetts Legislature, iqio — . 

BENJAMIN T. PICKMAN 

House of Representatives, 1 829^-30; Senate, 
1831-35; president Senate, 1833, 34, 35. 

ROBERT RANTOUL, Jr. 

House of Representatives, 1835-38; Board of 
Education, 1837; U. S. District attorney, 1845- 
4Q; U. S. Senate, 1851; Congress, 1851-52. 

DAVID T. REMINGTON 

Corporal, Thirty-first Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteer Infantry, Civil war; Senate messen- 
ger, i8qo-q3; Senate doorkeeper, 1893-1904; 
sergeant-at-arms Massachusetts Legislature, 
1904-1910. 

ALEXANDER H. RICE 

President Boston Common Council; mayor Bos- 
ton, 1855-56; Congress, 1859-67; Philadelphia 
Loyalists" Convention, 1868; Republican Na- 
tional Convention, 1868; governor, 1876-79. 

GEORGE D. ROBINSON 

House of Representatives, 1874; Senate, 1876; 
Congress, 1877-84 (resigned); governor, 1884-87! 

WILLIAM E. RUSSELL 

Cambridge Common Council, 1882; alderman, 
1883, 84; mayor, 1885-88; governor, 1891-94. 



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I WILLIAM SCHOULER | 

M House of Representatives, 1844-47, i84q-52; g 

M clerk House of Representatives, 1853; State ( 

M Constitutional Convention, 1853; Senate, 1868; g 

g adjutant-general, Ohio, 1857; adjutant-general, g 

= Massachusetts, 1860-66. g 

I ROBERT GOULD SHAW | 

M Captain Second Regiment and colonel Fifty- g 

m fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer In- g 

g fantry in the Civil war. The Fifty-fourth was g 

g the first regiment of colored troops from a free M 

M State mustered into the United States service. M 



NATHANIEL SILSBEE g 

Congress, 1 8 1 7-2 1 ; House of Representatives, M 

1 821; president Senate, 1823-26; U. S. Senate, M 

1826-35; presidential elector, 1824 and 1836; g 

president State Convention at Worcester, 1840; g 

Presidential Convention, 1840. g 

REV. SAMUEL F. SMITH | 

Clergyman; author of "My Country, 'tis of g 

Thee," etc. g 

THOMAS GREELY STEVENSON | 

Major Fourth Battalion, Massachusetts Volunteer g 

Militia, 1861 ; colonel Twenty-fourth Massachu- g 

setts Infantry, Civil war; promoted to brigadier g 

general of volunteers, 1862; commanded First g 

division. Ninth army corps, 1864; killed at = 

I Spottsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864. g 

I CALEB STRONG | 

1 General Court during Revolution; county attor- g 

i ney, 1 776-1 800; State Constitutional Convention, = 

1 1780; Senate, 1780-89; Council, 1780; U. S. g 

1 Constitutional Convention, 1787; Massachusetts g 

i Ratifying Convention, 1788; U. S. Senate, g 

I 1789-96; governor, 1800-07, 181 2-1 6. g 

I 130 g 

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1 GEORGE C. STRONG | 

M Graduated from West Point in 1857; appointed B 

J lieutenant in the ordnance and assigned to the M 

M command of Watervliet Arsenal; staff officer m 

M under Generals McDowell, McClellan and Butler; M 

J commissioned brigadier general of volunteers, M 

J Nov. 2Q, 1862; commanded a brigade in the S 

= operations against Charleston, S. C.; mortally M 

M wounded while leading the assault on Fort M 

M Wagner, July 18, 1863; appointed major gen- = 

M eral of volunteers to rank as such from thac g 

M date; died in New York City, July 30, 1863. M 

I JAMES SULLIVAN | 

g Provisional Congress, 1775; justice. Supreme B 

J Judicial Court, 1776-82; State Constitutional M 

J Convention, 1780; Continental Congress, 1782; M 

g Council, 1787; judge of probate; attorney- g 

= general, 17QO-1807; House of Representatives; | 

m commissioner to fix boundary between United g 

g States and Canada, 1796; governor, 1807-08. g 

I CHARLES SUMNER | 

g U. S. Senate, 1851-March 11, 1874; abolitionist; . g 

g took part in Free Soil Convention at Lowell, g 

g 1852; State Constitutional Convention, 1853. g 

I INCREASE SUMNER | 

M Convention of 1777; State Constitutional Con- g 

g vention, 1780; House of Representatives, 1776- g 

g yq; Senate, 1780-82; justice Supreme Judicial M 

g Court, 1782-97; one of Commission on Revision B 

g of State Laws, 1785; Massachusetts Ratifying g 

g Convention, 1788; governor, 1797-99. g 

I THOMAS TALBOT | 

g House of Representatives, 1851, 52; State Con- g 

g stitutional Convention, 1853; Council, 1864-69, B 

= lieutenant governor, 1873, 74; acting governor g 

g from May i, 1874; presidential elector, 1876 g 

B and 1884; governor, 1879. g 

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GARDINER TUFTS 

House of Representatives, 1861; military agent 
of Massachusetts at Washington, 1862-70; in- 
spector of military hospitals and prisons for 
department of Washington, 1 863 ; assistant 
provost marshal, with rank of lieutenant- 
colonel, 1864; treasurer Reformatory Prison 
for Women ; superintendent State Primary School 
at Monson; superintendent Massachusetts Re- 
formatory, 1884-qi. 

DAVID I. WALSH 

House of Representatives, iqoo, iqoi; Demo- 
cratic National Convention, 1912; lieutenant 
governor, 1913; governor, 1914. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON 

Adjutant Virginia troops, 1751; lieutenant- 
colonel, 1754; Virginia House of Burgesses and 
Continental Congress, 1774-75; commander- 
in-chief continental forces, 1775-83; president 
Constitutional Convention, 1787; deputy from 
Virginia; first president U. S., 1789-1797; 
lieutenant-general and commander-in-chief of 
army, 1798. 

EMORY WASHBURN 

House of Representatives, 1826-27, 38, jy; 
Senate, 1841, 42; aide on staff of Governor Lin- 
coln, 1830-34; judge Court of Common Pleas, 
1844-47; Board of Education ; governor, 1854, 

WILLIAM B. WASHBURN • 

Senate, 1850; House of Representatives, 1854; 
Congress, 1862-72; governor, 1872-May i, 1874 
(resigned); U. S. Senate, 1874-75. 

DANIEL WEBSTER 

State Constitutional Convention and presidential 
elector, 1820; House of Representatives, 1822; 
Congress, from New Hampshire, 181 3-1 7; from 
Massachusetts, 1823-27; U. S. Senate, 1827-41, 
1845-50; U. S. secretary of state, 1841-43, 
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I HENRY WILSON | 

1 House of Representatives, 1841, 42, 46, 50; g 

1 Senate, 1844, 45; president Senate, 1851, 52; M 

g State Constitutional Convention, 1853; U. S. M 

m Senate. 1855-73 (resigned); vice-president M 

I U. S., 1873-75. I 

I JOHN ANCRUM WINSLOW | 

1 Appointed midshipman in the Navy 1827; lieu- | 

I tenant 1839; served in the Mexican war; com- g 

I mander 1855; captain 1862; commodore 1864 M 

g and promoted to rear admiral in 1870. As g 

m commander of the U. S. S. "Kearsarge, '* he B 

i defeated the Confederate cruiser "Alabama," g 

i Captain Raphael Semmes, outside the harbor g 

i of Cherbourg, France, June iq, 1864. g 

I JOHN WINTHROP | 

I Deputy governor, 1636-37, 1644-46; governor, | 

I 1630-34, 1637-40, 1642-44, 1646-49. g 

I ROGER WOLCOTT | 

I Boston Common Council, 1877-80; House of = 

1 Representatives, 1882-85; lieutenant governor, g 

I 1893-97 (acting governor from March 5, 1896); g 

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Adams, John, 48, 104. Banks. Nathaniel P.. 24, loq; statue 

Adams, Captain John G. B.. 3, 60. (Henry H. Kitson). dedication, 31; 

106, 112; portrait (Darius Cobb), portrait (Daniel J. Strain). 44; 

114; biography, iiq. biography, iiq. 

Adams, Samuel, 7, 49. 78, q6, 11 1; Barry, Edward P., iq. 

medallion, 51; portrait (Walter Bartlett, Major General William 

Gilman Page). 82; biography, iiq. Francis, 104; statue (Daniel Chester 

Adjutant General's Department, — French), dedication, 70. 71; biog- 

military records since 1780, photo- raphy, 120. 

graphs, portrait, 56. Bates. John L., 16, 30, 70, loq; portrait 

Alexander. Francis, artist, 8q. (William W. Churchill), 83; biog- 

Ames, Mrs. Adelbert, 45- raphy, 120. 

Ames, Joseph, artist, qj. Bayard. Thomas F., 102. 

Ames, Oliver, 15; portrait (Charles Beacon Hill, 5. 6, 33. 

A. Whipple), 45: bust (Robert Beacon Monument, 5; history, 3 1-33 ; 

Kraus). 71; biography, i iq. architect (Charles Bulfinch), 32; 

Ames. Mrs. Oliver. 45. 71. inscription (Charles W. Eliot), 33; 

Ames, Mrs. Sarah F., sculptor. 85. tablets, 34, 35. 

Andrew. John A., 27, 104; statue Beacon Street, 6, 8, 10. 

(Thomas Ball), dedication, 36; Belden, Charles B. D., 4. 

portrait (Darius Cobb), 44; address Benson. Frank W.. artist. 45, 8q. 

on battle flags, 58; biography, iiq. Bicknell. Albion H.. artist. 82. 

Andrew. John F., 44. Bill, Richard, portrait (Henry E. 

Appleton, General Francis H., q?. olf'^^j^^' ^J\, 

Appropriations, — Land, 6; Bulfinch g'''- ^^dyard, 83. 

State House, 7; first fire proof Boston Town of, 6, 33 : Town House, 

edifice, 11; Bryant addition. 12; 47. 48. 106. 1 13; Council Chamber. 

Washburn alterations, 13; prop- 1-,'* \ir ^ /-> ■ • 

erty takings, 13. 14, iq, 20; ex- Boston Water Commissioners i .3 . 

tension, 1 4; preservation of Bui- Boutwell, George S., portrait (Frederick 

finch State House, 16; wings, iq. P- Vinton). 44; bust (Martin Mil- 

-'o- total 21 e ' ^- more). 8j; biography, 120. 

Architects, -Andrews, David H.. 15; ^^r'^TL^rhinTls'^hio^r'^^^^^ 

Andrews, Robert D., -5. 18 iq; Br?ckT?t,'jL^hn'Q.'A',To^^^ 

aSPes. UrT?;' B'r^akt. G^X' j! S^^. S^''^- P^^^)'^^= ^*°^- 

^■'R\r\^^^%H^''!^P'^cSZl''' BraSt. "waiter M., artist, 44; 

7>.,f.- 32, 36, 78. 105; Chapman. painted Codfish. 106. 

William .7. 18 iq; Cummings. Bradford. William. 104; -History of 

Charles A.. 15; Esty. Alexander R pij^^^j^ Plantation," 102. 

&ffo^n?hn1:".'i5;%turyis, R: Bradstreet.^ Simon, portrait, 87; biog- 

Clipston, 18, iq; Washburn & Son, Brady, Matthew B.. artist, 83. 

William, 13; Whitcomb, E.Noyes, q^.^ George R, portrait (Walter 

I^^.'i.h f^•'•^^^ f^H Snln™^°^ M Bracket!), 44; biography 121. 

Isaiah. 10, Willard. Solomon. 10. g^^^^g^ Francis. 88. 

Architecture Doric 32. 36. 84; Ionic. Brooks. John, portrait (Jacob Wagner), 

47, 86; Corinthian, 23, 78. 103. 88; biography, 121. 

111; colored glass. 46. 47. S7, T>- Brooks. Peter C. 88. 

77, 103, in; cornice, 57, 84; Brooks, Richard E., sculptor. 71. 85. 

wood, q4, 103; frieze. 103-105; Brooks. Shepherd. 88. 

ceilings. 57. q8. 103. in. Bryant. Wallace, artist. q5. 

Archives State. 100. loi. Bulfinch. Charles. 5. 78; architect. 

Army Nurses Memorial (Bela L. 7^ g. 32. 36. 78. 105; tablet, 37; 

Pratt), dedication, 54-56. portrait, 81; biography, 37. 

Army Nurses' Memorial Association, Bulfinch, Ellen S., 8i. 

Daughters of Veterans, 54-5^- Bullock, Alexander H.. loq; portrait 

Art Commission. State. 18. (Horace R. Burdick), 44; biog- 

Ball, Thomas, sculptor, 26. raphy. 121. 



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Bullock. A. G., 44- 

Bullock, Mrs. Elvira Hazard. 44. 

Bunker Hill Monument Association. 

Burdick. Horace R.. artist, 44. 
Burlingame, Anson, portrait (Matthew 

B. Brady). 83; biography. 121. 
Burnet, William, portrait. 87; biog- 
raphy, 122. 
Butler, Major General Benjamin F.. 

portrait (Walter Gilman Page), 45; 

biography, 122. 
Butler arms, 39. 

Buttrick, Major John, 36. 6q. qo. 
Buttrick. James G. and Martha M.. qo. 
Caliga. I. Henry, artist, 8q. 
Carriage way. 8. 
Gary. Richard. 81. 
Chantrey. Sir Francis, sculptor. 36. 
Charters. 76. 77. 80. 100. 
Childs. Henry H.. portrait (Moses 

Wight). 107; biography, 122. 
Churchill. William W., artist. 83. 
Cincinnati. Society of the. motto. 26. 
Claflin. William, portrait (J. Harvey 

Young), 45. 0^7; biography. 122. 
Clapp. E. Herbert, portrait. q8. 
Clapp. Mrs. Elizabeth G.. q8. 
Claus. W. A. J., artist, 8q. 
Clifford, John H., 12, q?; portrait 

(Benoni Irwin), 8q; biography, 122. 
Clifford, Mrs. Sarah Parker, 8q. 
Coat-of-arms, State. 2q. 47. 77. 84. 86, 

103, 105; description, qq; heraldry. 

c^C), loo; motto, OfC); U. S. shield, 

105; Westphalia, qo; Boston. Eng- 
land. 1 18. 
Cobb, Darius, artist, 44. 113. 
Cobb, Cyrus, sculptor. 85. 
Cobb. David. q6. 108; portrait (Edgar 

Parker), qy; biography, 122. 
Cobb, Samuel C, qj. 
Codfish, 105-107. 

Cole, Elizabeth Lowell Hancock. 42. 
Colonial Wars. Massachusetts Society 

of, 7q. 
Commonwealth Building. 13. 
Copenhagen. Denmark. c^C). 
Copley's Hill. 5. 

Copley. J. Singleton. 82. 83. 88, 105. 
Corner Stone, Bulfinch State House. 

7. 12; extension. 15; east wing. iq. 
Corner, Thomas C, artist, 56. 
Cotton Hill, 5. 

Council, 7, qq; photographs, 81. 
Council Chamber, old, 48; Bulfinch, 

78; ornamentation, 78; chairs, 107. 
Couper, William, sculptor. 53. 
Crafts. Jr., Thomas, painted Codfish, 

106. 
Cram, Ralph Adams, 73. 
Crane. Winthrop Murray, portrait 

(Frederick P. Vinton. William W. 

Churchill). 83; biography. 123. 
Cupola. The, dimensions, 22; history, 

23, 25. 
Davis, Andrew McFarland, 8q. 



Davis, George Henry, 8q. 

Davis, Horace, 8q. 

Davis, Captain Isaac. 36. 

Davis. John. 8q. 

Davis. John, portrait. 8q; bas-relief, 

8q; biography, 123. 
Davis, John Chandler Bancroft, 8q. 
Dawes, Thomas, 5, 6. 
Day, Robert L., qi. 
De Berdt, Denys, portrait, 81; coat- 
of-arms, 8i; biography, 123. 
Departments, portraits in, i 1 7. 
Devens, Major General Charles, 104; 

statue (Olin L. Warner), 31; biog- 
raphy, 123. 
De Camp, Joseph, artist, 83. 
Dome, The, dimensions, 22; history. 

23-25; copper for. 23. 24; painted. 

23; gilded. 25; electric lights on, 25. 
Doric Hall, architecture. 36; portraits, 

statuary, tablets, war relics. 36-45. 
Douglas. William L.. portrait (Arthur 

M. Hazard). 83; biography. 123. 
Dowse. Rev. Edmund, portrait 

(Wallace Bryant). q5; biography. 

123. 
Dowse. William B. H.. c^'y. 
Draper. Eben S.. 3. 53. 110; portrait 

(Joseph De Camp). 83; biography, 

123. 
Dudley. Joseph. portrait (Lyle 

Durgin). 87; biography. 124. 
Duff, Sir M. E. Grant, 2. 
Dummer. William, portrait (Frederick 

P. Vinton). 87; biography. 124. 
Dummer Academy. 87. 
Durgin. Lyle. artist. 87. 
Eagle. 33. 84. 
Eaton, Charles O., 5q. 
Elevators, 115. 
Eliot, Charles W., LL.D., inscriptions 

by, 27, 33- 
Endecott, John, 104; portrait, 87; 

biography. 124. 
Endicott. Henry, i 5, 
Eustis, William, 6; portrait (Henry 

Williams), 8q; biography, 124. 
Evans & Company, John, 73. 
Everett, Edward, 2q, 104; portrait 

(Philip L. Hale), 83; biography, 124. 
Executive Department. 78-83; relics, 

81; records, 100; portraits \ and 

photographs, 81-83. 
Fences, wood, 8; brick, 8; stone, 

8, q; iron. q. 
Ferguson, Frank W., 73- 
Findlav. John L., artist, 1 14. 
First Church, The old, 41. u^. 'H- 
Flags, — Colonial, t^; Provincial. 7q; 

Revolutionary War, 51, 7^. 80; 

Mexican War, q3, q4; Civil War, 

57-67, q4; Spanish-American War. 

46; permanently located. 46, 60; 

National, 3q, 84. qi-q4. 105. 117; 

laws for constructing, q2, q3; State, 

80, 81, 84. q4. 105, 117. 118; de- 
scription, 80, 81; Flag day. q2. 



INDEX 



III 



Foot way. 8. 

Foss. Eugene N., iq. 42; biography, 
124. 

Fountains, 2q. 

Fowle, George M.. q2. 

Fowle. George W., qz. 

Fowle, Jonathan, q2. 

Francis, James Dwight, 70. 

Franklin, Benjamin. q2. 105; bust 
(Horatio Greenough). 85; biog- 
raphy. 124. 

French. Daniel Chester, sculptor, zq. 
70. 103. 1 10. 

Frothingham. Rev. Paul Revere. 41 . 74. 

Fuller, Stephen P.. surveyor. 10. 

Gage. General Thomas. 32. 50. 68; 
portrait. 88; biography. 125. 

Gage. Admiral Sir William Hall, 88. 

Gallego, Michael, sculptor, 8y. 

Gardner, Henry J., 12; portrait (Jean 
Paul Selinger), 44; biography, 125. 

G. A. R.. Wilson Post No. i. Depart- 
ment of Maryland, qi. 

Gaston, William, portrait (Frederick 
P. Vinton), 45; biography. 125. 

Gaston, Mrs. William. 45. 

Gaston. William A.. 45. 

Gates, 8, q. 

General Court, 7.8, 107. 1 1 1 ; records, 
loi; political year. 107; Door- 
keepers. Messengers, Sergeants-at- 
Arms since 1644, 112- 114; sessions 
where held, 112, 113; Messenger's 
house. 7, 1 13. 

Gerry, Elbridge, portrait (Henry Sand- 
ham), 88; biography, 125. 

Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's, 43. 

Gibbs, Mrs. Ida Louise, 80. 

Gifford, Stephen N., portrait, q8. 

Gilbert, Dr. D.D.. 87. 

Gore. Christopher, portrait (Mrs. 
Marie Danforth Page), 82; biog- 
raphy, 125. 

Gore, Samuel, 106. 

Governor's Pasture, 6. 20. 

Grand Staircase Hall, architecture, 
paintings, statuary, 47-56. 

Grant, General Ulysses S., q4. 

Greenhalge, Frederick T., bust (Samuel 
J. Kitson), 71; portrait (W. A. J. 
Claus), 8q; biography, 126. 

Greenough, Horatio, sculptor, 85. 

Greenough, Horatio S., 85. 

Grenville, E. C, 8z. 

Griffin's Wharf, 4q. 

Groton Public Library, 44. 

Guild, Curtis, 30, 55, 70, 81, 103. i 10; 
memorial, 72-75; biography, 126. 

Guillaume, Louis Matthieu Didier, qy. 

Hale, Philip L., artist, 83. 

Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, 83. 

Hancock Avenue, 8, 21, 22. 

Hancock, John, 6, 78, iii; "Gover- 
nor's pasture", 6; mansion, 20, 28; 
memorial, 41; medallion, 51; por- 
trait (Walter Gilman Page). 82; 
biography. 126. 



Hancock, John, 33. 

Hardie, Robert Gordon, artist, 44. 

Harding, Chester, artist, 8q, qy. 

Hazard, Arthur M.. artist. 83. 

Heard. John T.. 1 1. 

"History of Plimoth Plantation". 
William Bradford. 102. 

Holmes. Oliver Wendell, i. 

Hoar. George F.. 102; bust (Daniel 
Chester French), dedication. 103; 
biography, 126. 

Hooker, Ma|or General Joseph, statue 
(Daniel Chester French and Ed- 
ward C. Potter), 2q; dedication, 
30; biography, 127. 

Horton. Rev. Edward A.. 52. yy. 

House of Representatives. 103-ioy. 
III. 112; coat-of-arms in old. 84; 
seats, 107; old chamber, 8, 84. 86; 
new chamber, 103-107; Codfish. 
ioy-107; photographs of Speakers 
since 1780. 108. loq. 

Hunt. James, housewright. 10. 

Hutchinson. Thomas. 48. yo; portrait 
(Walter Gilman Page). 88; biog- 
raphy. 127. 

Hutchinson. Samuel K.. 11. 12. 

Ipsen. Ernest L.. artist. 88. 

Irwin, Benoni, artist. 8q. 

Jarvis. Charles. 6. 

Johnston, John, artist. 88. 

Jones. John Coffin, 6, 108. 

Key, Francis Scott, q3. 

King's Mountain, N. C, 81. 

Kinney, Henry E., artist, 83. 

Kitson, Henry H., sculptor. 31. 

Kitson. Samuel J., sculptor. 71. 

Knox. Joseph H.. qi. 

Kraus. Robert, sculptor. 71. 

Kuhn. Jacob. 113; portrait. 112; 
biography. 127. 

Lafayette. Marquis De. bust (Horatio 
Greenough). 8y; biography. 127. 

Lawrence. A. A.. 8y. 

Lawrence. George P.. ly. 16. 8y. 

Lawrence, Myron, portrait. q6. 

Lely. Sir Peter, artist. 87. 

Leverett, John, portrait, 87; biog- 
raphy. 127. 

Lewis. Dorothy Standish. yy. 

Lewis, Winslow, M.D., 12. 

Lincoln. Abraham, memorial, 42; dedi- 
cation, 43; Gettysburg address, 43; 
portrait (Albion H. Bicknell). 82; 
bust (Mrs. Sarah F. Ames), 8y; 
biography. 128. 

Lincoln, Levi, q, 24, q7. 108; portrait 
(Frank W. Benson). 8q; biog- 
raphy, 128. 

Little, William, 6. 

Long, John D., qi. q4, toq; portrait 
(Edgar Parker), 83; biography, 128. 

Longfellow. Henry Wadsworth. yo. 
loy. 

Lord Bishop of London, 102. 

Lord Chief Justice of England, John 
Duke Lord Coleridge, 2. 



IV 



INDEX 



Lothrop, Rev. Samuel K., 28, 58. 

Lowell, James Russell, 26. 105. 

Lynch, Mrs. Mary. 95. 

Mt. Vernon, 5 ; Street, 8. 

Mann, Horace, q6. 104; statue 
(Emma Stebbins), dedication, 28, 
2q; biography, 128. 

Marble, Varieties of, 20, 47, 57. 71. 
72. 73. 78, 110. 

Marshall, Augustus, q8. 

Masons, Grand Lodge of, 7, 12. 15. 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 88. 

McCall, Samuel W., 74; biography, 
128. 

Memorial Hall, 57-71; architecture, 
57; battle flags, mural paintings, 
statuary, 57-7^- 

Memorial Hall, Cambridge, 82. 

Merrill, William E., 81. 

Merwin, Henry C, 107. 

Messenger's house, 7, 113. 

Meyer, George von L., 15. loq. 

Milmore, Martin, sculptor, 85. 

Morton, Marcus, portrait (Robert 
Gordon Hardie), 44; biography, 12c). 

Morton, Marcus, 44. 

Morton. Perez, 6, 108. 

Museum of Fine Arts, 82. 

Newton, Stuart, artist, 8^. 

O'Connell, William H., Cardinal, 75- 

Old South Church, 49. 

Olin, William M., qq. 

Orlandini, Edward, 74. 

Osgood. Charles, artist, 95. 

Otis, Harrison Gray, 6, c^b, 108. 

Otis. James, 47-49, 111. 

Page, Mrs. Marie Danforth, artist, 82. 

Page, Walter Gilman, artist, 45. 82, 88. 

Paintings, Mural, — "The Writs of 
Assistance," "The Boston Tea 
Party," "Paul Revere's Ride" 
(Robert Reid), 47-52; "The Pil- 
grims on the Mayflower," "John 
Eliot Preaching to the Indians" 
(Henry Oliver Walker), 68; "Con- 
cord Bridge," "The Return of the 
Colors" (Edward Simmons). 68, 6q. 

Parker, Edgar, artist. 83. 95. 

Parker, Herbert, 31, 74. 

Parker, Captain John, 84. 

Parker, Rev. Theodore, 84. 

Pedrick, Thomas P., Sergeant-at-Arms, 
3, iq, 55 114; State House Com- 
missioner, 16-20; portrait (John L. 
Findlay). 114; biography, 129. 

Pemberton Hill, 5. 

Pickman, Benjamin T.. 96; portrait 
(Charles Osgood). 95; biography. 
129. 

Plimoth Plantation. Manuscript His- 
tory of (William Bradford), 102. 

Pond. Joseph A.. 12. 13.97. 

Porter. Noah, mason. lo. 

Post Office. 103. 

Potter, Edward C. sculptor. 29. 

Powell. Jeremiah, 90, 96. 

Powers. Hiram, sculptor. 28. 



Pratt, Bela L., sculptor, 52. 54. 

Prospect Hill, Somerville. 79. 

Putnam, General Israel. 79. 

Quincy. First Church of Christ. 90. 

Rantoul. Jr., Robert, portrait (Joseph 
Ames). 95; biography. 129. 

Recchia, Richard. 73. 

Reid, Robert, artist. 47-52. 

Remington. David T.. portrait (John 
L. Findlay). 114; biography, 129. 

Republics, names of, 46. 

Republican Institution. The, 89. 

Revere. Paul. 7. 23. 47, 50, 51, 69. 

Revolution, Daughters of the American. 
Hannah Goddard Chapter, 91. 

Revolution. Sons of the American. 
Boston Chapter. 79. 

Revolution. Sons of the, Massachusetts 
Society. 41. 79. 

Rice, Alexander H., portrait (I. Henry 
Caliga). 89; biography, 129. 

Rich. Isaac, 85. 

Richards, Joseph R., 12. 

Ridgeway, James, 82. 

Robbins, Edward Hutchinson. 5, 108. 

Robinson. George D.. portrait (Daniel 
J. Strain). 45; biography. 129. 

Robinson. Sara T. D.. 96. 

Ross. Mrs. Betsy, flag, 92. 

Rowe.John. 105. 106. 

Russell. Joseph. 6. 

Russell. William E.. bust (Richard E. 
Brooks). 71; portrait (Edmund C. 
Tarbell).83; biography. 129. 

St. Gaudens. Augustus, sculptor. 25. 

Sandham, Henry, artist, 82, 88. 

Schaff, Morris. 70. 

Schouler. James. 56. 

Schouler, William. Adjutant General, 
portrait (Thomas C. Corner). 56; 
biography, 130. 

ScoUay, William, 7. 

Scott, Thomas. 90. 

Scott, Lieutenant General Winfield, 
Q3- 

Seals, — "Plimouth Nov Anglia." 46; 
" Mattachusets Bay in Nova Anglia." 
46; Colony. 47, 76, 80; Province. 
76. 77; Magna Charta. 77. 99; 13 
original states. 57; State. 77; Great 
seal, 99. 

Secretary of the Commonwealth, 4. 8, 
99-101; Great seal and coat-of- 
arms. 99. 100; Colony and Province 
charters. 100; State constitution. 
100; military archives to 1783, 
100, 10 1 ; executive and legislative 
records, 100; papers on treaties, 
witchcraft, grants, surveys, loi. 

Selinger, Jean Paul, artist, 44- 

Senate, old chamber, 8. 86-94; tem- 
porary chamber. 86; new chamber. 
84-86; busts, war relics. 84. 85;, 
reception room. 86-94; war relics. 
90. 91; portraits. 87-90; reading 
room. 94; portraits. 95; photographs 
of Presidents since 1 780. 96-98. 



INDEX V 

Sentry Hill, 5. ^ Stone, Rev. Arthur W., U. S. N., 53. 

Sergeant-at-Arms' Department, door- Stone, James M., 12, 13, loq. 

keepers and messengers 1644-1835. Strain, Daniel J., artist. 44. 45. 

sergeants-at-arms 1835-1917. por- Strong. Caleb, portrait (Henry Sand- 
traits, heating and lighting, eleva- ham), 82; biography. 130. 

tors. 1 12-11 5; flags, relics. 117. Strong. Major General George C, qi ; 

118. biography, 131. 

Sharpe, Samuel. 76. Strong. Wilson B.. qi. 

Shaw. Colonel Robert Gould, me- Stuart. Gilbert, artist. 82, 88, q5. 

morial (Augustus St. Gaudens). Sullivan, James, picture in wax. 82; 

dedication, 25-27; biography. 130. portrait (Ernest L. I psen). 88; biog- 

Silsbee, Nathaniel. qb; portrait raphy. 131. 

(Chester Harding), q^; biography. Sullivan. Richard. 88. 

130. Sumner. Charles. 3q, 102. 104; bust 

Simmons. Edward, artist. 6q. (Martin Milmore), 85; portrait 

Smith. Frank Hill, artist, 103. iii. (Henry Ulke), 102; medal from 

Smith. Rev. Samuel F., bust (Cyrus Hayti, 102; biography, 131. 

Cobb), 85; biography, 130. Sumner, Increase, 7, 8; portrait 

Spear, Samuel, 33. (John Johnston), 88; biography. 

Stark, Brigadier General John. qo. 131. 

State House Avenue. 22. Sumner Street, 8. 

State House, history, 2, 5-22; Old Sumner, General William H., 88. 

State House, 7, 81, 8q, 106; Bui- Sydney, Algernon, qq. 

finch building, 2. 5-8, 113, 114; Talbot, Thomas, portrait, Sq; biog- 

agents, 5; original deed, 6; dimen- raphy, 131. 

sions, 7, 10, 22; property takings, Tarbell, Edmund C, artist, 83, 88. 

13, 14 iQ. ^o■, original lot and Taylor, Charles A., qi. 
present holdings, 21; first fire- Thacher, George M., 12. 
proof edifice, 10, 11; Bryant Thaxter. Jr., Adam W.. 12. 
addition, 11-13; extension. 14, 15; Thompson, D.D., Rev. A. C, 82. 
wings. 16-20; description of ex- Tillinghast, Caleb B., 4. 

terior, 23, 24; corner stones, 7. Town House, old, 47, 48. 106, 113. 

12, 15, iq; tablets, 37; commis- Tracy, Charles, 24. 

sions. II. 12. 14-10; coal pocket. Tra-mount, 5. 

, 114; elevators, 115; heating and Treasurer of the Commonwealth. 8; 

lighting. 114. chests. 115. 116. 

State House Commission, — Thomas Trumbull, John, artist, 82. 

F. Pedrick. Albert P. Langtry. Tudor, William. 6. 48. 

Elmer A. Stevens. 16-20; Charles Tufts. Colonel Gardiner, bust (Richard 

■ L. Burrill. 20. E.Brooks) 85; biography. 1 32. 

State House Building Commission. — Ulke. Henry, artist. 102. 

Albert P. Langtry, Joseph B. U. S. S. Battleships. 30. 53- 

Russell. Neil McNeil, iq. 20; John United States Senators. 116. 117. 

A. Keliher. J. Edward Fuller, 20. United States shield, 105. 

State House Construction Commission, Vanderlyn, John, artist, 88. 

— John D. Long. William Endicott. Vandyke. Sir Anthony, artist. 87. 

Jr.. Benjamin D. Whitcomb. Charles Vinton. Frederick P.. artist, 44. 45. 

Everett Clark, George W. Johnson, 8^, 87, Sq. 

14. 16. Voik. Leonard W., sculptor. 4^- 
State Library. 11; reference. loi-io;^; Votin, 81. 

"History of Plimoth Plantation". Wagner. Jacob, artist. 88. 

102; portrait of Charles Sumner Walker. Henry Oliver, artist, 68. 

(Henry Ulke), 102; medal to Charles Wall, W. A., artist, 44. 

Sumner from Hayti, 102; bust of Walsh, David L, iq, 41. 59: biog- 

George F. Hoar (Daniel Chester raphy, 132. 

French), 103. War of 1812, Society of the. q3. 

State Prison, q. War records. — Narragansett. 100; 

State Street, 7. French and Indian, 100; Revolu- 

Stearns, George Luther, tablet, 38. tionary. 56. 100, 101; 1812, 5 ; 

Stebbins. Emma, sculptor. 28. Mexican. 56; Civil. 56; Spanish 

Stevens, Benjamin, portrait. 113. American. 56. 

Stevens. Charles Edward. 1 13. War relics. — Revolutionary, 3^. 84. 

Stevenson. Brigadier General Thomas qo. qi; 1812. 36; Civil, qi, 118; 

Greely, bas-relief (Bela L. Pratt), Spanish American, 1 1 7, 1 18. 

dedication, 52; biography, 130. Warner, Olin L.. sculptor. 31. 

Stevenson, Thomas G., 52. Warren. Charles H., 1 1 . q7. 

Stevenson Memorial Association, 52. Warren, Dr. Joseph, 6q. 1 1 1. 



VI 



INDEX 



Washburn, Emory, portrait (William 

Willard), 8q; biography, 132. 
Washburn, William B., portrait (Frank 

W. Benson), 45', biography, i3Z. 
Washington, George. 80, qi; statue 

(Sir Francis Chantrey). dedication, 

36; bust (Michael Gallego), 85; 

memorial tablets, 39, 40; arms, 3q; 

biography, 132. 
Washington Monument Association, 36. 
Way estate, 13. 
Webster, Colonel Amos. 94. 
Webster. Daniel, 104; statue (Hiram 

Powers), dedication. 28; biography, 

131. 

Webster Memorial Fund. 28. 2q. 

Weeks. John W.. 53. 

Wells, Charles, 10, 24. 

Wells, Samuel, 15. 

West Hill. 5- 

Wheelwright, Rev. John, qo; biog- 
raphy, 133. 

Wheelwright. John, 74- 

Whipple, Charles A., artist, 45- 

White. Henry J., qi. 

Whiting. William. 85. 

Wight. Moses, artist, 107. 



Willard, William, artist. 8q. 

Williams. Henry, artist. 8q 

Wilson, Henry, qj, 104; bust (Martin 
Milmore), 85; portrait (Louis M. 
D. Guillaume). q5; biography, 133. 

Wilson, Matthew, 8q. 

Winslow, Capt. Herbert. U. S. N.. 53. 

Winslow. Rear Admiral John A., bas- 
relief (William Couper), dedication, 
53, 54: biography, 133. 

Winthrop, John, 104; portrait (Sir 
Anthony Vandyke), 87; biography, 

Winthrop, Robert C, 88, qq, 108. 
Wolcott, Roger, 15, 16, 46, q4, 102; 

portrait (Frederick P. Vinton), 8q; 

memorial (Daniel Chester French 

and Henry Bacon), dedication, no, 

1 1 1 ; biography, 133. 
Wolcott, Mrs. Roger, 8q, no. 
Wolcott Camp. Roger, L. S. W. V.. 

1 10. 
Woman's Relief Corps, Department of 

Massachusetts. 42. 
Wood. Joseph Hooker. 30. 
Wor ml ey, James, 102. 
Young, J. Harvey, artist. 45- 



